Legends of Allergy and Immunology: Philip S. Norman, M.D.

: At an early age, Philip S. Norman developed a keen interest in science - first with astronomy and mathematics, then with meteorology during his military training, and subsequently with a medical career that took him from the coal fields of Kansas to his eventual tenure at Johns Hopkins. Along the way, he had stops at Kansas State Teachers College, where he studied under a noted immunologist, J. Ralph Wells, who nurtured his growing interest in research; Washington University-St. Louis, where he graduated cum laude; internship at Barnes Hospital; internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt; fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute-New York, where he trained under Merrill Chase; and finally, in 1956 having joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins.