Frederick Parker Gay
| Frederick Parker Gay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 22, 1874 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | July 14, 1939 (aged 64) New Hartford, Connecticut |
| Resting place | Town Hill Cemetery, New Hartford |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins Medical School |
| Known for | The Open Mind(1938) |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Mills Jones |
| Children | William, Louisa, Lucia, Parker |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions |
University of Pennsylvania Danvers State Hospital Harvard Medical School University of California, Berkeley Columbia University |
Frederick Parker Gay (July 22, 1874 – July 14, 1939) was an American bacteriologist who combated typhoid fever and leprosy and studied the mechanism of immunity. He was a charter member of the Explorers Club.
Frederick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to George Frederick Gay and Louisa Maria Parker. In 1894 he was part of an Arctic expedition led by Frederick Cook.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1897 after a trip around the world. He went to the Philippine Islands in the Spanish–American War fighting Emilio Aguinaldo. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1901. With funding from Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, he became a demonstrator in pathology at University of Pennsylvania.
In 1906 he worked at the Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts and began to collaborate with Elmer Ernest Southard in the study of anaphylaxis. They induced reactions in ginea-pigs with horse serum and published their findings (see Works below).
Travelling in Europe in summers, Gay became acquainted with Jules Bordet in Brussels who was developing a theory of immunity through serology. The analysis studies "the series of events that accompany the struggle between host and infecting organism." Gay investigated the alexin (complement) fixation reaction. In 1907 he became Instructor in pathology at Harvard Medical School, and in 1909 translated Bordet’s Studies in Immunity.
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