Norwegian background; education, Stanford University; intern, University of Colorado,
1927-1933: William Finnoff and Edward Jackson; Giza Memorial Ophthalmic Institute, Egypt, and Pasteur Institute, Tunis, 1930; University of Iowa School of Medicine,
1931-1936; tissue culture at the Rockefeller Institute; chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, and co-director, Institute of Ophthalmology, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, 1939-1942; Army Medical Corps; founder, director, trustee, Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology: Foundation mission, expansion, research contributions, setbacks, Fellows Program; consultant, Indian Health Service; discussion of trachoma research, specific publications on external eye disease; committees, memberships, and honors; photography in ophthalmology; human volunteers in medical research; steroid use in ophthalmology.
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Phillips Thygeson: Ophthalmology Oral History Series: Phillip Thygeson, MD: External Eye Disease and the Proctor Foundation
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Thygeson, Phillips. "Phillips Thygeson: Ophthalmology Oral History Series: Phillip Thygeson, MD: External Eye Disease and the Proctor Foundation." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 1987. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Interview date(s) 1987
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