Ebbe Hoff
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Ebbe Curtis Hoff
He earned a bachelor's degree in Zoology summa cum laude at the
From 1932 to 1936 he held the Alexander Browne Coxe research fellowship in the School of Medicine at Yale University, where he taught and conducted neurophysiologic research. He also taught at Sarah Lawrence College.
Returning to
Once again at Yale, he was part of the Yale Aeromedical Research Unit under John Farquhar Fulton, Chair of Physiology, coauthoring publications on aviation medicine. During
After the war, he began teaching as Professor of Physiology at the
In collaboration with his wife Phebe Hoff, he edited a multi-volume history of Preventive Medicine in World War II, which formed a part of the official history of the Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II published by the Historical Unit, U.S. Army Medical Department.
In 1977, he was granted emeritus professor status.[3]
Dr. Hoff was a member of Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honor society, Sigma Xi science honorary society, the American Physiological Society and the Medical Society of Virginia.
He was a member of the Torch Club of Richmond, the Richmond Astronomical Society and St Mary's
Selected publications
- Alcoholism: The Hidden Addiction (New York: Seabury Press, 1974)
- A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air diving and submarine medicine (Washington, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., 1948–1954)
- A bibliography of aviation medicine (Springfield, Ill., Baltimore, Md., C.C. Thomas, 1942)
- United States Army Medical Service. Preventive Medicine in World War II - a multi-volume series which he edited with his wife Phebe Margaret Hoff (Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army) including
- Volume II. Environmental Hygiene
- Volume III: Personal Health Measures and Immunization,
- Volume IV. Communicable Diseases Transmitted Chiefly through Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts.
- Volume VI: Communicable Diseases: Malaria
- Volume VII. Communicable Diseases: Arthropodborne Diseases Other than Milaria
- Volume IX. Special Fields.
- A New Holmesian Treasure Trove (The Problem of Biffley Vicarage), Novella, Baker Street Journal [V14,#3-4,09-12/1964] (with Phebe M. Hoff)
References
- ^ "[Ebbe C. Hoff]". nih.gov.
- ^ VCU Medicine. "Program History". vcu.edu.
- ^ "Collection: Ebbe C. Hoff collection". archives.library.vcu.edu. Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved 29 January 2021.