Theodore Woodward

Theodore Englar Woodward[1] (March 22, 1914 – July 11, 2005) was an American medical researcher in the field of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In 1948, he received a Nobel Prize nomination for his role in finding cures for typhus and typhoid fever.

Theodore E. Woodward
Born(1914-03-22)March 22, 1914
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.
DiedJuly 11, 2005(2005-07-11) (aged 91)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materFranklin & Marshall College
University of Maryland School of Medicine
OccupationMedical Researcher
Spouse(s)
Celeste Lauve Woodward
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(m. 1938⁠–⁠2005)​
Children3
AwardsLouis Pasteur Medal (1961)

Biography

Born in Westminster, Maryland the son of Lewis K. Woodward, Sr. and grandson of Lewis Woodward, Theodore E. Woodward, is the patriarch of one of Maryland's large medical families, consisting of his wife, Celeste L. Woodward, his sons, William E. Woodward and R. Craig Woodward, and his daughter, Celeste L. Woodward. After his early education at the West End School and the Westminster Elementary and High School, he attended Franklin and Marshall College where he graduated in 1934.[2] He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1938.

After a two-year rotating internship at the University of Maryland Hospital, he trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, all in preparation to enter practice in Carroll County, Maryland.

Woodward entered the service of the United States Army in January 1941, just prior to the outbreak of World War II. During the ensuing five years, he served in various medical units and with the United States Typhus Fever Commission with assignments in North Africa, Italy, England, France, New Guinea and offshore islands, and the Philippine Islands.

Woodward authored the history of the U.S. Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and Commissions, which fostered the development of many advances in military medicine, with lasting benefits for civilian public health and disease prevention.[3]

Following discharge from military service in June 1946, Woodward entered private practice. In 1948, he was appointed as a full-time Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In June 1954, he was appointed to the Chair of Medicine, a position which he held until 1981, at the time of his retirement. Woodward died in Baltimore aged 91.

Woodward is credited with coining, in the late 1940s, the medical zebra aphorism (following the principle of Occam's razor) paraphrased variously as:

"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras."

and

"When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra."

See also

References
  1. Commencement Exercises (PDF). University of Maryland. June 4, 1938. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. Press release Archived 2004-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ISBN 9994677330, ISBN 978-9994677337, https://www.amazon.com/Armed-Forces-Epidemiological-Board-Commissions/dp/9994677330
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