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Encyclopedia: Walter Reed

Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13 1851 - November 23 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory (first set forth in 1881 by Cuban doctor/scientist Carlos Finlay) that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact. This insight opened entire new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904-14) by the United States.

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Killah Priest

Killah Priest (born Walter Reed , a.k.a. Iron Sheik ) is an American rapper and affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan. Known for complex rhymes and deep, spiritual lyrics, Killah Priest is frequently found as a guest on many Wu-Tang Clan and solo albums. Having made his first appearance on the Gravediggaz...

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Carlos Finlay

the disease. His hypothesis was proven nearly twenty years later by the Walter Reed Commission of...

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Richard K. Sutherland

Highest Honors of the Philippine Government Death and Burial Sutherland died at Walter Reed Medical...

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Richard Russell

died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. The Russell Senate Office Building, the...

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Charles E. Potter

resided in Queenstown, Maryland, until his death at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C.. He is...

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Al Blozis

Walter Reed General Hospital and then went through Officers' training at Fort Benning. At Fort...

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Caltech and Harvard before being drafted to complete military service at the Walter Reed Army Medical... visiting investigator at the Walter and Eliza Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. It was...

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David H. Hubel

University, but was drafted by the army and served at Walter Reed Hospital. There, he began recording from...

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Everett Dirksen

later. He held that position until his death following cancer surgery on September 7, 1969 at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC. He is most often remembered for the quote: "A billion here, a billion...

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Margaret Singer

1950s at Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., where she interviewed U.S. soldiers who...

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