1888-1962
Virologist

Life and Work.

An Interest in Virology Develops.

Valuable Contributions.

A Brave Experimenter.

Positions of Leadership.

After the 1920s Rivers assumed other positions of leadership at the Rockefeller Institute. In 1937 he succeeded Rufus Cole as director of the hospital, and was vice president of the Rockefeller Institute by 1953. Meanwhile, Rivers was a member of the New York City Board of Health, and he directed the formation of Naval Medical Research Unit Number 2. Rivers retired from the Rockefeller Institute in 1955, only to become vice president for medical affairs of the National Foundation — March of Dimes, an organization having headquarters in Washington, D.C., that raised funds for poliomyelitis and other medical research.

Source:

Gerald Astor, The Disease Detectives: Deadly Medical Mysteries and the People Who Solved Them (New York: New American Library, 1984).