Former Chatham-Avalon Park President Inducted into The National Inventors Hall of Fame

Taylor's success at Swift earned him an appointment as Microbiologist-in-Chief at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital, and over the next 50 years, he educated medical doctors at twelve additional Chicagoarea hospitals on how to treat everything from food poisoning and Toxic Shock S...

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Published inChicago Citizen Vol. 51; no. 8
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Chicago Weekend 11.05.2016
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Executives
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Taylor, Welton I
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Summary:Taylor's success at Swift earned him an appointment as Microbiologist-in-Chief at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital, and over the next 50 years, he educated medical doctors at twelve additional Chicagoarea hospitals on how to treat everything from food poisoning and Toxic Shock Syndrome to Legionnaires Disease and AIDS. Taylor's continuing work in the area of food poisoning prompted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to dispatch him to Europe in 1961 to help French and British scientists to eradicate Salmonella in their imported foods, and in 1985, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta named a newly discovered bacterium Enterobacter taylorae in honor of Taylor's work and that of a British colleague, Dr. Joan Taylor (no relation). Taylor's induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame finally brings his name to a non-scientific audience.