Thomas Neville Bonner (28 May 1923 – 2 September 2003) was

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Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

and a leading historian of medicine. Bonner was the twelfth President of the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...

from 1971 to 1974. After 3 years at UNH he became the fifteenth president of

Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...

from 1974 to 1978. He then became the seventh president of

from 1978 to 1982. Bonner was a U.S. Army World War II veteran as part of the Army Signal Intelligence Unit in Europe. He is buried at the

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in Phoenix, Arizona.

Selected publications

* ''Iconoclast:

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and a Life in Learning'' * ''To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine'' * ''Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945'' * ''Medicine in Chicago, 1850–1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City'' * ''American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in Intellectual Relations, 1870–1914'' * ''The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering'' * ''Our Recent Past'' * ''The contemporary world: The social sciences in historical perspective''

References

External links

University of New Hampshire: Office of the President

Full list of University Presidents (including interim Presidents)
University of New Hampshire Library * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonner, Thomas N. 1923 births 2003 deaths Wayne State University faculty Northwestern University alumni American medical historians Presidents of Union College (New York) Presidents of the University of New Hampshire Presidents of Wayne State University United States Army personnel of World War II Burials in Arizona 20th-century American academics