Harold F. Blum

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Harold F. Blum
Born(1899-02-12)February 12, 1899
Naval Medical Research Institute, Temple University School of Medicine

Harold Francis Blum (1899 - 1980) was a

physiologist who explored the interaction of light and chemicals on cells, especially sunlight-induced skin cancer.[1]

Early life and education

Harold Blum was born on February 12, 1899, in Escondido, California. For a year during the First World War, he served with the American Expeditionary Forces Signal Corps in France. Blum graduated in 1922 from the University of California, Berkeley, with an A.B. in zoology with honors. He attended Harvard Medical School from 1923 to 1924, then returned to Berkeley for a Ph.D. in physiology and graduated in 1927. During his PhD studies Blum worked for the San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Committee. Blum completed postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire Maritime de Concarneau in France and the University of Liège in Belgium in 1933.[1][2]

Career

Harold Blum was an assistant professor of

Naval Medical Research Institute. In 1947 Blum became visiting professor at Princeton University, where he spent 20 years.[1]

In 1951 Blum published Time's Arrow and Evolution,

thermodynamic processes.[5] Scholar Robert Scholes, writing about influences on science fiction, calls the work a "milestone in science writing" that is "one of the finest pieces of science writing ever done."[6]

Blum retired from Princeton University and the

State University of New York at Albany. From 1973 until his death in 1980, Harold Blum was visiting professor of photobiology at the Center for Photobiology, Skin and Cancer Hospital of the Temple University School of Medicine.[1]

Harold Blum died in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 29, 1980.[1]

References

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    doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1981.tb05419.x
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  2. ^ "Foundation Report: 1936 - US & Canada Competition, Natural Sciences - Organismic Biology & Ecology: Harold F. Blum". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1936. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21.
  3. ISBN 9780691023540
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  4. PMC 2599115
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  5. PMC 2599115
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  6. ^ Scholes, Robert; Rabkin, Eric S. (1977). "Bibliography III: Science Backgrounds". Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision. London: Oxford University Press.
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