Joseph Charles Aub (1890-1973) was an American

endocrinologist Endocrinology (from ''endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental events ...

and

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

then chair of medicine at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

and

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

. The lead industry funded Aub's research which ignored the health effects of lead on children.

Honours and awards

Foreign honours

* : Officer of the

Order of the White Lion The Order of the White Lion ( cs, Řád Bílého lva) is the highest order of the Czech Republic. It continues a Czechoslovak order of the same name created in 1922 as an award for foreigners (Czechoslovakia had no civilian decoration for its ...

(1946)https://www.prazskyhradarchiv.cz/file/edee/vyznamenani/cs_rbl.pdf

References

External links

Joseph C. Aub papers, 1918-1974. H MS c169, Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
1890 births 1973 deaths American endocrinologists Harvard Medical School alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Officers of the Order of the White Lion {{US-physician-stub