Cecil Kent Drinker

Cecil Kent Drinker (March 17, 1887 – April 19, 1956) was an American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. He was professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 1923 till 1935. Drinker was involved in the effect of radium on the women painting luminous dials. Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., industrial hygienist Philip Drinker and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen. Cecilia Beaux, the artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was his aunt.

Cecil Kent Drinker
portrait of Cecil Kent Drinker as a child, by his aunt Cecilia Beaux, 1891
Born	17 March 1887  Philadelphia
Died	14 April 1956  (aged 69) Falmouth
Alma mater	Haverford College Perelman School of Medicine
Occupation	Physician, physiologist
Employer	Harvard Medical School Johns Hopkins University
Spouse(s)	Katherine Rotan Drinker
Parent(s)	Henry Sturgis Drinker  Aimee Ernesta Beaux

Drinker was married to Katherine Rotan Drinker, a fellow physician.

References

• Means J. H. (1956). "Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 69: 11–3. PMID 13380935.
• "Katherine Rotan Drinker, 1889-1956 and Cecil Kent Drinker, 1887-1956". A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health. 15 (1): 74–5. 1957. PMID 13393814.
• Rozwadowski, Helen M. (2000). "Drinker, Cecil Kent". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300439.
• "The Founders & Deans of HSPH". 29 October 2013.
• "Deadly occupation, forged report". 24 October 2013.
• "Lab partners, life partners". 13 March 2013.

External links

• Cecil Kent Drinker papers, 1898-1958. H MS c165. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.