Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World by Irwin W. Sherman

Their children, Jonathan Turner (born 1968) and Alexa Joy (born 1970), both writers, owe some of their future success to the idyllic summers spent in Woods Hole. During one of those summers, he became smitten with Vilia Turner, a British-born graduate student at UCLA, who was studying the reproductive cycles of Atlantic starfish and sea urchins. That initiated a longstanding association with the MBL, where Professor Sherman was a student, laboratory assistant, and instructor in Invertebrate Zoology, later an instructor in the Biology of Parasitism course, and in intervening years a reader in the library and an independent investigator. In 1957, City College awarded him a Biology Club scholarship for the summer Invertebrate Zoology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA.

At Northwestern he began his lifelong research on the biochemistry of malaria parasites. Upon discharge from the Army and return to the U.S., he enrolled in and graduated from Northwestern University where he received Master's (1959) and Ph.D. Army in Europe, where he worked in a medical laboratory, he became enamored with infectious disease agents. During a two-year tour of duty with the U.S. His parents, Morris, a factory manager, and Anna, a homemaker, were immigrants from Okna, Russia, who, though limited in their own formal education, strongly encouraged their son’s academic pursuits.Īfter attending local elementary (Public School 93), junior high (Herman Ridder) and high (James Monroe) schools, he graduated with honors in Biology from the City College of New York.

Professor Sherman, born on the Lower East Side of New York on Feb.12, 1933, grew up in the South Bronx. His 2 most popular ASM titles were Twelve Diseases that Changed the World and Power of Plagues, both of which made a big impact by educating generations about pathogenic microbes and sparking interest in microbiology. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a prolific author of ASM publications. Sherman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California (Riverside), an educator and a malaria researcher for more than 50 years, died on Jan.

Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World by Irwin W. Sherman