John Gordon was a pioneering epidemiologist and war hero, decorated with multiple service medals from various countries.
Dr. John Everett Gordon (June 18, 1890—June 27, 1983) was born in Austin, Minn. and grew up in Wisconsin and Chicago. After world War I service he obtained his Ph. D. at the University in Chicago in 1921 and his M.D. at Rush Medical College in 1925, after which he researched scarlet fever in Romania for the Rockefeller Foundation. After joining Harvard in 1937 Dr. Gordon spent six years in Europe during World War II, most of it as chief of preventive medicine for the US Army in Europe. After returning he was elected head of the department of epidemiology in the Harvard graduate school, where he remained until 1958.
John Everett Gordon appears in the following:
Public Health in the Contexts of its Social, Biological and Medical Origins / Physiological and Ecological Aspects of Public Health
Tuesday, February 03, 1959
Noah Webster, Benjamin Franklin, and the doubling of life expectancy.
