[1] Waldenstrom's Disease, a relative of lymphoma.
Father: Joseph Simon Thomas (physician)
Mother: Grace Emma Peck
Wife: Beryl Dawson (m. 1941)
Daughter: Abigail (b. 1941)
Daughter: Judith (b. 1944)
Daughter: Elizabeth (b. 1948)
High School: McBurney School, Manhattan, NY (1929)
University: Princeton University
Medical School: MD, Harvard Medical School (1937)
Professor: Tulane University (1948-50)
Professor: University of Minnesota (1950-54)
Professor: Pathology, New York University
Administrator: Dean, School of Medicine, New York University (1966-69)
Administrator: Dean, Yale Medical School (1972-73)
Professor: SUNY Stony Brook
New York City Official Board of Health (1957-69)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1961
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Chancellor (1980-83)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center President (1973-80)
National Academy of Sciences 1972
New York Academy of Sciences President
National Book Award for The Sciences 1975 for The Lives of a Cell
National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1975 for The Lives of a Cell
Author of books:
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974, essays)
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979, essays)
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher (1983, essays)
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony (1983)
Could I Ask You Something? (1985, poetry)
Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher (1990, essays)
The Fragile Species (1992, essays)
