19 Facts About David Bodian

David Bodian was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research.

David Bodian received the E Mead Johnson Award in Pediatrics and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award for his work, along with numerous other distinctions.

In 1910, David Bodian was born in St Louis, Missouri to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Ukraine.

David Bodian grew up with his four sisters and younger brother in Chicago, where he attended public school.

In 1929 Bodian attended the University of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology in 1931, his Ph.

David Bodian was under the supervision of Charles Judson Herrick, Norman Hoer and George William Bartelmez while working on his thesis project on the visual pathways of the opossum.

In 1938, Bodian was offered a fellowship in the Department of Anatomy at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to join Howard A Howe to study polio in monkeys.

David Bodian later came to Johns Hopkins University in 1939 as a research fellow in anatomy where he would begin a long-standing partnership with Howe.

In 1940, David Bodian served an interim period of a few months as an assistant professor of anatomy at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

David Bodian served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology from 1948 to 1957.

In 1944, David Bodian married Elinor Widmont, a medical illustrator and painter who contributed illustrations to some of his published articles.

In 1935, while researching the visual pathways of the opossum, David Bodian developed a method of staining nerve cells in paraffin using silver proteinate or Protargol with gold and other fixing agents.

David Bodian would go on in 1937 to refine the selectivity of the staining process through adjusting the formulations for the fixatives used.

David Bodian found that large quantities of serum antibody were not necessary to block the invasion of polio virus into the nervous system, and that antibodies circulate in the bloodstream.

In 1941 Bodian received the E Mead Johnson Award in Pediatrics from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

David Bodian was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

David Bodian was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and the American Philosophical Society in 1973.

David Bodian was an honorary member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the French Neurological Society, and the Mexican Society of Anatomy, and he served as the 48th president of the American Association of Anatomists from 1971 to 1972.

David Bodian received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1987.