2 Quotes & Sayings By David Fairchild
David Fairchild was born in 1838 in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1867 and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1870. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1881, but became famous for his work on malaria at the Harvard School of Public Health. After retiring from that position, he worked on control of yellow fever and other diseases. Fairchild's major work was "The Insects of America" (1899), which includes data on the distribution of insect species over the entire world
His most famous book, however, is "The Science of Living Series" (1914): "The Science of Living with Insects", "The Science of Living with Animals", "The Science of Living with Vegetables", and "The Science of Living with Man". He was awarded an honorary LLD degree by Harvard University in 1898. Fairchild died on November 9, 1919, at his home on Waldo Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.