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Charles Arthur Stuart
Born(1893-05-26)May 26, 1893
Lyon Mountain, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 17, 1962(1962-10-17) (aged 69)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Resting placeSwan Point Cemetery
Alma materBrown University
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology

Charles Arthur Stuart (May 26, 1893 – October 17, 1962) was an American physician and professor of bacteriology. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1956.[1]

Biography

After education in public schools at Plattsburgh, New York, Stuart matriculated in 1914 at Brown University.[2] There he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1919, an M.S. in 1921, and a Ph.D. in 1923.[3] His Ph.D. thesis is entitled The Effect of Environmental Changes on the Growth, Morphology, Physiology and Immunological Characteristics of Bacterium typhosum.[4] From 1917 to 1918 he served in the Brown Ambulance Unit of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps.[2][5] In the bacteriology department of Brown University, he was an instructor from 1923–1925, an assistant professor from 1925–1931, an associate professor from 1931 to 1944, and a full professor from 1944[3] until his retirement in 1960 as professor emeritus.[6] For 35 years, he was a part-time teacher of student nurses at Rhode Island Hospital. He served as a consultant in bacteriology for several Rhode Island hospitals as a member of the Milk Commission of the Providence Medical Association.[2]

Stuart was the author or coauthor of more than 100 scientific papers. In the early part of his career, he worked with

mononucleosis.[14][15] He did important research on the taxonomy of the family Enterobacteriaceae.[16][2][3]

Stuart was elected in 1933 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[17]

He married in 1924[3] and his wife often helped him with laboratory work.[2] He is buried in Swan Point Cemetery.

Selected publications

References

  1. PMID 13403843
    . (ASM presidential address)
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    PMID 16561991
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  3. ^ a b c d Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. pp. 2425–2426.
  4. PMID 16559070
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  5. ^ "Brown University in the War by James G. Fernald". Brown University in the War: A Report by the War Records Committee, Including a Statement of the War Work of the University, the Biographies of Brown Men who Died in Service, and a Directory of the Military Service of Alumni, Former Students and Undergraduates. The Committee. 1919. pp. 9–11.
  6. ^ Mitchell, Martha, "Stuart, Charles A.", Encyclopedia Brunoniana, Brown University.
  7. ^ Popular Science Monthly. McClure, Phillips and Company. September 1926. p. 136.
  8. ^ Popular Science. December 1929. p. 147.
  9. S2CID 87336548
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  10. S2CID 87405011
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  11. S2CID 88112995
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  12. S2CID 222430983
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  13. S2CID 87105253
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  14. S2CID 100719378
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  15. S2CID 87409716
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  16. PMID 16560842
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  17. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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