1900-1966, inclusive

Personal name, Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970

Stanhope Bayne-Jones
6 Nov 1888-20 Feb 1970
Stanhope Bayne-Jones was born in New Orleans. He received his B.A. in 1910 from Yale University, his M.D. in 1914 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his M.A. in 1917 from the Johns Hopkins University. Until 1924, he held various faculty positions at the school of medicine, ranging from instructor in pathology to associate professor of bacteriology. He then served on the medical faculties at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and the Yale University School of Medicine, becoming dean of medicine at Yale in 1935. Bayne-Jones also served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in World Wars I and II and was promoted to brigadier general. A bacteriologist, he was chosen as one of the ten members of the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, which issued the famous Surgeon General's Report in 1964 that linked smoking to cancer. In 1968, a professorship in medicine was established at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in his honor.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1914-1924