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WILLIAM BLOOM September 15, 1899-May 11, 1972 BY RONALD S I N GER WILLIAM ("BILL") BLOOM was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1899, the eldest of the four chilclren of Mayer and Bertha Singer Bloom.
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Spring Harbor, but he conic! not accept as he had to go to Plattsburg for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
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Sabin in 1930 (then at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) in which she thanked him for the copy of the first edition of Textbook of Histology.
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20 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS various drugs and trained them to run in Watson's maze for Dr.
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, he found a new method for measuring the latter in blood serum containing much hemoglobin. During the next two years he worked out the early stages of the embryogenesis of human bile capillaries (American Journal of Anatomy, ~ 926)
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Bloom's introduction to experimental hematology resulted in the publication of "Transformation of Small Lymphocytes into Myelocytes in Germinal Centers" (Folia Haematolog~ca 33, 1926~. Then he began tissue culture experiments with immune reactions (Archives of Pathology 3, 1927)
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WI L L IAM B L O O M 23 ies on the origin of monocytes, and further papers on lipicl tissues. Until this time, the two greatest influences in Bloom's scientific clevelopment hacl been E
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and bloocI-forming organs in tissue culture. These studies strengthened his conviction as to the multiple developmental potentialities of the lymphocyte.
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. , C, In the 1930s, Bloom collaborated with William H
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26 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS During this same decade William and Margaret Bloom collaborated with Franklin G McLean, carrying out extensive studies on bone and its clevelopment, many in egg-laying birds.
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Changes in the cells were followecl by means of phase-contrast microscopy and recorded in time-lapse motion pictures. This study of the mitotic process in newt fibroblasts in tissue culture and the effect of focal irradiation (using an ultraviolet microbeam)
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28 B I O G RA P H I C A L M E M O I R S first met Bill in 1923 (shortly after his arrival in Chicago) in the home of a cousin who hac!
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WILLIAM BLOOM ~9 Bloom was able to rescue several anatomists and their families from HitIer's Europe by procuring funds or positions for them in the United States. Among them was Franz Weidenreich, gross anatomist, histologist, and physical anthropologist (famed for his discoveries of and research on the so-callecl Peking Man fossils)
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