Thomas Benton Cooley
American physician
Died when: 74 years 112 days (891 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Thomas Benton Cooley (June 23, 1871 – October 13, 1945) was an American pediatrician and hematologist and professor of hygiene and medicine at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
He was the director of the Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1904.He worked in private practice in Detroit as the city's first pediatrician starting in 1905.
He worked with the Babies' Milk Fund and helped to reduce Detroit's high infant mortality rate in the 1900s and 1910s.
During World War I, Cooley went to France as the assistant chief of the Children's Bureau of the American Red Cross.
He was decorated in 1924 with the cross of the Legion of Honor for his work in France.From 1921 to 1941, Cooley was the head of pediatric service at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Cooley gained acclaim for his scientific work in the field of pediatric hematology and is principally remembered for his discovery of, and research into, a form of childhood anemia that became known as Cooley's anemia.
Cooley was also a professor at the Wayne University College of Medicine from 1936 to 1941.
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