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Cecil Kent Drinker
Cecil
Kent
Drinker
was an
physician
and founder of the
Harvard School of Public Health
. He was professor at
Harvard
School of Public Health
from
1923
till
1935
. Drinker was
involved
in the
effect
of
radium
on the
woman painting luminous dials
.
Drinker's father was
railroad
man
and
Lehigh University
president
Henry Sturgis Drinker
; his siblings included
lawyer
and
musicologist
Henry Sandwith Drinker
,
Jr
.,
industrial hygienist
Philip Drinker
, businessman
James Drinker
, and
biographer
Catherine Drinker Bowen
.
Drinker was married to
Katherine Rotan Drinker
.