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Portrait of Willard Parker, MD (1800-1884). Parker was one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine and became president of the Academy in 1856. He taught as Professor of Surgery at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons for more than thirty years, beginning in 1839.

Dr. Frances Pascher, Professor Emeritus of Dermatology, 1905-1983.

Image of Maxwell Herbert Poppel, MD (1903-1994) from p. 60 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Poppel received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1927. He was a celebrated radiologist, serving as chairman of the American Institute of Radiology, and the author of a classic textbook on diseases of the pancreas. Poppel was also an outstanding contributor to knowledge of iodine metabolism and insulin antibodies.

Charcoal portrait of John Osborn Polak, MD (1870-1931). The drawing is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner. Dr. Polak taught as Instructor and Professor at New York Post-Graduate Medical School from 1894 to 1907. He was the author of the “Manual of Obstetrics” (1913) and the “Student’s Manual of Gynecology” (1913).

Portrait of Burton C. D’Lugoff, MD. Dr. D’Lugoff received his MD. from New York University School of Medicine in 1957. He served as a Fellow in Pathology at the College of Medicine from 1957 to 1958. At the time this portrait was taken, he was the Directory of Community Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals.

Portrait of Severo Ochoa, MD (1905-1993). Dr. Ochoa was appointed Research Associate at New York University School of Medicine in 1942, after which he became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (1945), Professor of Pharmacology (1946), Professor of Biochemistry (1954), and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Ochoa was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in1959 for his discoveries in biochemical genetics and nucleic acids.

Photograph of Zoltan Ovary, MD (1907-2005), who organized the dinner meeting at which Pathology Department Chairman Chandler Stetson invited Michael Heidelberger, the father of immuno-chemistry, to work at NYU. Ovary and Heidelberger are shown here with Dr. Ovary's's students Robert Tigelaar (L), who became a professor of dermatology at Yale and Domenico Mancino (R), who became director of the University of Naples. Dr. Ovary became a member of the New York University School of Medicine faculty in 1959.

Photograph of Zoltan Ovary, MD (1907-2005), in his lab with visiting high school students. Dr. Ovary became a member of the New York University School of Medicine faculty in 1959. While at NYU, working with Baruj Benacerraf and others, he discovered the “carrier-effect,” i.e., the same carrier protein for the foreign substance must be used in subsequent immunizations to produce the maximum number of antibodies; and the once controversial, but for now fundamental concept that there are different classes of antibodies with different biological properties.

Photograph of William Hallock Park, MD (1863-1939), working at his desk. Dr. Park taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Adjunct Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene from 1897 to 1898. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Adjunct Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1898-1899), Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1899-1900), and Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1900-).

Portrait of Howard Troy Phillips, MD (1891-1949), in a sailor’s uniform. The picture is inscribed: “To Howard Fox, Lt. Colonel U. S. Army. from Howard T. Phillips H. A. [Hospital Apprentice] [?] U. S. Navy.” Phillips was a dermatologist and served in the United States Navy during the First World War.