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Dennis Wallace Watson

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Dennis Wallace Watson (April 29, 1914, Morpeth, Ontario – December 1, 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota) was a Canadian-American professor of microbiology. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1969.[1]

Biography

Watson graduated in 1934 with a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and in 1937 with an M.Sc. from Dalhousie University. During his years as a graduate student at Dalhousie, he was also employed as an assistant by the Biological Board of Canada. From 1937 to 1938 he worked for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada,[2] where he studied the bacteriology of fish spoilage.[3][4] In 1938 he went to the United States.[5] In 1941 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Ph.D. in bacteriology.[2] His Ph.D. thesis is entitled The biological and physical properties of tuberculin constituents.[6] At the University of Wisconsin, Watson was from 1941 to 1942 a research fellow and a research associate in agricultural biology. In 1942 he was a visiting assistant at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. From 1942 to 1944 he worked in Toronto at the Connaught Laboratories.[2] From 1944 to 1946, he worked on the development of a typhus vaccine for the U.S. Army in the United States biological weapons program.[7][2]

In 1946 Watson became a naturalized U.S. citizen. From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant professor in agricultural biology at the University of Wisconsin.[2] In the department of microbiology of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he became in 1949 an associate professor and then became a full professor, retiring in 1984 as professor emeritus. From 1964 to 1984 he was the head of the department. He served as director of the Minneapolis War Memorial Blood Bank.[7]

At the University of Minnesota, Watson did research on several diseases, but his discoveries about endotoxin shock might be his most important and fundamental work.[7] He also did research on host-parasite relationships.[2]

Watson was elected in 1953 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8] Upon his retirement in 1984, some of his former students established the Dennis W. Watson Fellowship for University of Minnesota graduate students in microbiology and immunology.[9]

He married in 1941.[2] His wife died in 2001. They had a daughter, Catherine, and a son, William. Upon his death in 2008 at the age of 94, Dennis W. Watson was survived by his two children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.[7] His son William (who died in 2020) was for many years a professor of world history in the department of social sciences of Colorado Christian University.[10]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Watson, D. W. (1969). "Who speaks for microbiology?". Bacteriological Reviews. 33 (3): 383–389. doi:10.1128/br.33.3.383-389.1969. PMC 378330. PMID 4905850. (ASM presidential address)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 2631.
  3. ^ Watson, Dennis W. (1939). "Studies of Fish Spoilage: IV. The Bacterial Reduction of Trimethylamine Oxide". Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 4b (4): 252–266. doi:10.1139/f38-023.
  4. ^ Watson, Dennis W. (1939). "Studies of Fish Spoilage: V. The Role of Trimethylamine Oxide in the Respiration of Achromobacter". Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 4b (4): 267–280. doi:10.1139/f38-024.
  5. ^ Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2008-2009. Marquis Who's Who. December 2007. p. 915. ISBN 9780837957685.
  6. ^ Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations, University of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press. 1942. p. 19.
  7. ^ a b c d Cohen, Ben (December 8, 2008). "Obituary. Scientist Dennis Watson fought against infectious ills". Star Tribune, Minnesota.
  8. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  9. ^ "Scholarships and Fellowships". Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School. 20 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Mourning the Passing of Dr. Bill Watson". Colorado Christian University. November 12, 2020.

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