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Charles Bradfield Morrey
b. 1869
A pioneer in American bacteriology, this Ohio educator helped shape early science teaching with a widely used textbook on the subject. His career at Ohio State University spanned decades of teaching, research, and academic leadership.
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The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
by Charles Bradfield Morrey
About the author
Born on November 5, 1869, Charles Bradfield Morrey was an American bacteriologist and educator whose work was closely tied to the growth of scientific study in the United States. He is best known as the author of The Fundamentals of Bacteriology, a teaching text that appeared in multiple editions and introduced students to the field during its early development.
Morrey studied at Ohio State University and later at Harvard, then returned to Ohio State, where he served for many years as professor and chair of bacteriology. Sources from the period also connect him with the university's early athletic history, showing how active he was in campus life beyond the laboratory and classroom.
He died on April 21, 1954. Remembered as a longtime teacher and department leader, Morrey belonged to the generation that helped establish bacteriology as a formal academic discipline in American higher education.