Stafford L. Warren

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For the imaginative, prescient, and vigorous efforts which made possible the early development of atomic energy so as to assure the protection of man and the environment, and for the establishment of a biomedical research program which has resulted in many substantial applications of ionizing radiation to diagnosis and treatment of disease and to the general welfare. [29]

He died on July 26, 1981, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife and three children. [2] His papers are in the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. [3]

The Stafford L. Warren Medal is named in his honor and is awarded to the top graduating medical student from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA each year.

Notes

  1. Greene, Benjamin (2006). Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. page 10-11
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "University of California: In Memoriam, 1985". University of California . Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Finding Aid for the Stafford Leak Warren papers, 1917-1980 bulk 1943-1980". University of California . Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  4. "History of the University of Rochester Medical Center". University of Rochester. Archived from the original on 28 December 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  5. 1 2 "News and Notes". California Medicine. 66 (3): 145–147. March 1947. PMC   1642869 .
  6. Cohen, Peter; Warren, Stafford L. (July 1935). "A Study of the Leukocytosis Produced in Man by Artificial Fever". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 14 (4): 423–433. doi:10.1172/JCI100693. PMC   424697 . PMID   16694316.
  7. Warren, Stafford L. (1937). "Artificially Induced Fever for the Treatment of Gonococcic Infections in the Male". Journal of the American Medical Association. 109 (18): 1430–1435. doi:10.1001/jama.1937.02780440020006.
  8. Shouse, Samuel S.; Warren, Stafford L.; Whipple, George H. (28 February 1931). "Aplasia of Marrow and Fatal Intoxication in Dogs Produced by Roentgen Radiation of All Bones". The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 53 (3): 421–435. doi:10.1084/jem.53.3.421. PMC   2131967 . PMID   19869855.
  9. Warren, S.L. (1930). "A Roentgenologic Study of the Breast". The American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy. 24: 113–124.
  10. 1 2 Gershon-Cohen, J.; Forman, Myron (September 1964). "Mammography of Cancer". Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 40 (9): 674–689. PMC   1750642 . PMID   14172056.
  11. 1 2 3 Gold 2005 , p. 3
  12. "History of Cancer Detection 1851-1995". Emory University . Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  13. "Mammography - Mammography Saves Lives". American College of Radiology. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
  14. Warren 1966 , pp. 848–849
  15. Nichols 1987 , p. 122
  16. 1 2 Nichols 1987 , p. 123
  17. Jones 1985 , p. 410
  18. Jones 1985 , p. 430
  19. Groves 1962 , pp. 298–299
  20. Warren 1966 , pp. 886–889
  21. Warren 1966 , p. 901
  22. Groves 1962 , pp. 384–385
  23. Warren 1966 , pp. 902–905
  24. Warren, Stafford L. (August 11, 1947). "Conclusions: Tests Proved Irresistible Spread of Radioactivity". Life . Vol. 23, no. 16. New York. p. 88. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
  25. Warren 1966 , p. 915
  26. 1 2 3 4 "About the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA". University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on March 10, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  27. Warren 1966 , pp. 834–836
  28. "William P. Longmire, Jr". williamlongmire.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2010. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  29. "The Enrico Fermi Award - Stafford L. Warren, 1971". US Department of Energy. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2011.

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