M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz

Born in Baltimore on February 19, 1885, he studied at Johns Hopkins, earning a BA in 1903 and a medical degree in 1907. He went on to teach pathology at Johns Hopkins and worked as a hospital pathologist in Baltimore before moving to Yale in 1917 as professor of pathology and bacteriology.

At Yale, he became dean of the medical school in 1920 and served in that role until 1935. Contemporary accounts describe him as an energetic and forceful administrator, and later Yale archival records credit him with a long career as professor, dean, and author of several books on medical topics.

For readers today, he is best remembered as a physician-author whose books include The Pathology of Influenza and other medical works tied to the major public health and military crises of his era. Yale's archival description also notes his brief role as director of the American Eugenics Society in 1935–1936, an affiliation that is now explicitly contextualized in the historical record.