1930-1956, inclusive

Personal name, Rienhoff, William F., 1894-1981

William F. Rienhoff, Jr
10 Oct 1894-10 Jan 1981
William F. Rienhoff was born in Springfield, Missouri. He received his A.B. in 1915 from Cornell University and his M.D. in 1919 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He interned in both medicine and surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital under William S. Halsted and J.M.T. Finney, then accepted joint appointments at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. During the 1920s and 1930s, Rienhoff focused his research on the study of the thyroid gland, using innovative techniques to gain a better understanding of its anatomy. Later he concentrated on lung surgery, specializing in carcinoma of the lung. Rienhoff was one of the first researchers to link environmental factors with lung cancer.

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1919-1981

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1921-1981

2011-048

1994-068

1994-043

1989-102