William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29 1855, West Hartford - January 25 1921, Boston) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. William T. Sedgwick completed his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1877 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1883 until his death in 1921, aged 65, initially as Associate Professor (1884), … Wikipedia
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