John is the son of David Linn Edsall & Margaret Harding Tileston. He married Margaret Dunham on 1 May 1929 at Scarsdale, NY.
John attended the Milton Academy and the Brown and Nichols School before entering Harvard College where he majored in chemistry. Following graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, but anticipating an academic career, he then spent two years studying biochemistry at Cambridge University before returning to Harvard for a MD degree in 1928. He continued as a Research Fellow in the Medical School. There he progressed to Professor of Biological Chemistry, but in 1954 he joined this Faculty and moved to the Biological Laboratories. John became Emeritus in 1973: thereafter he remained engaged for more than twenty years. Dr. John Tileston Edsall died, five months short of his 100th birthday.
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John is the son of David Linn Edsall & Margaret Harding Tileston. He married Margaret Dunham on 1 May 1929 at Scarsdale, NY.
John attended the Milton Academy and the Brown and Nichols School before entering Harvard College where he majored in chemistry. Following graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, but anticipating an academic career, he then spent two years studying biochemistry at Cambridge University before returning to Harvard for a MD degree in 1928. He continued as a Research Fellow in the Medical School. There he progressed to Professor of Biological Chemistry, but in 1954 he joined this Faculty and moved to the Biological Laboratories. John became Emeritus in 1973: thereafter he remained engaged for more than twenty years. Dr. John Tileston Edsall died, five months short of his 100th birthday.
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