Harvard Medical Society Renamed in Honor of First Black Tenured Professor, Physician-Scientist Hinton
By Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer October 7, 2020 Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, Class of 1905, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard. Until now, the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829,…
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