Portraits

Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.

Portrait of James Edward McCormack, MD. Dr. McCormack received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939. He was later the Assistant Dean of New York University College of Medicine and the Assistant Director of Post-Graduate Division in the 1940s.

Portrait of Luther B. MacKenzie, standing. Inscribed, "Faithfully Yours, Luther B. MacKenzie" <p>Dr. E.F. Knauth, New York University, Office of the President.

Portrait of Mary Culhane McLaughlin, MD (1920-2014). Dr. McLaughlin received her MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1946. A leader in public health and preventive medicine, she served as New York City Commissioner of the Department of Health from 1969 to 1972 and became Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at Long Island Jewish Hospital in 1976. Dr. McLaughlin received the NYU Medical Alumni Achievement Award in 1977. She was the recipient of the Governor W. Averell Harriman Award for Public Service in 1958.

Portrait of Louis Lipton, MD. Dr. Lipton received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1916.

Portrait of John Joseph Moorhead, MD (1874-1957), in military uniform. Dr. Moorhead received his MD from University Medical College in 1897.

Portrait of Hans Horst Meyer, MD (1853-1939), inscribed to Dr. Emanuel Libman in November 1929. Dr. Meyer was a German pharmacologist, most famous for his discovery of the Meyer-Overton hypothesis of anesthetics.

Signed portrait of Ernest Lewis McEwen, MD (1867-1930). Inscribed “To Dr. Howard Fox, with all good wishes, Ernest L. McEwen, 3/25. ‘30.” Dr. McEwen spent his career at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL, where he served on the dermatology faculty.

Portrait of Graham Lusk, MD (1866-1932). Dr. Lusk became Professor of Physiology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898.

Portrait of Anthony Joseph Lanza, MD (1884-1964). Dr. Lanza organized and directed the Institute of Industrial Medicine at NYU Medical Center beginning in 1947. A leader in industrial medicine and one of the discovers of silicosis, he was awarded the New York University Presidential Citation in 1960.