William H. Howell, Ph.D. 1860-1945-Baltimore, MD - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

William H. Howell, Ph.D. 1860-1945-Discoverer of the anticoagulant heparin. First Professor of Physiology and early Dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Second director of the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

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Excerpt from above link: William Henry Howell, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D. was an American physiologist. He pioneered the use of heparin as a blood anti-coagulant. William Henry Howell was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1878.[1] He was educated at Johns Hopkins University, from which he graduated in 1881. He taught at the University of Michigan and at Harvard before becoming professor at Johns Hopkins in 1893. He was dean of the medical school from 1899 to 1911. He resigned that position to help William Henry Welch and others to establish the first graduate school of public health, the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He was Dean of the School of Hygiene (now Bloomberg School of Public Health) from 1926 to 1931.[2]


Note: The Blue plaque is on the side of the house facing Bolton Street.

Blue Plaque managing agency: Bolton Hill Historic District Individual Recognized: William H. Howell, Ph.D. Physical Address: 232 West Lanvale Street Baltimore, MD USA 21217 Web Address: Not listed

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