doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
william thomas councilman sudbury , massachusetts 19 march 1954 3 july 1880 grand island , nebraska american pathology harvard bent brigham hospital , children 's hospital of boston , mcgill , bender hygienic laboratory , peter 3 july 1880 work , scurvy on rocky mountain spotted fever , epidemic typhus simeon burt wolbach
 simeon burt wolbach harvard university
simeon burt wolbach

simeon burt wolbach -lrb- 3 july 1880 -- 19 march 1954 -rrb- was an american pathologist , researcher , teacher , and journal editor who elucidated the infection vectors for rocky mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus .
he was president of the american association of pathologists and bacteriologists and of the american society for experimental pathology .
born the son of banker samuel n. wolbach and rosa stein , he was raised in rural nebraska in the wild west era .
he went east to study in boston and remained there most of his life .
he married anna f. wellington in 1914 and had three children .
