Dr. William Stolzenburg was a 36-year-old medical student and amateur ornithologist when he began working on his first scientific paper. It was 1927 and talk of a new and mysterious disease had filled the medical journals, newspapers, and magazines; the search for a cause had become a national obsession. Dr
Stolzenburg's paper put forth an explanation for the disease that was as elegant as it was simple: it was caused by a parasite. This finding set him on a path to become one of the world's foremost experts in parasites, especially those that cause malaria. He went on to win many awards for his work, including the Albert Lasker Award for clinical research in 1965.
That same year, he received a presidential appointment to serve as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He served as Under Secretary from 1970 to 1972 under President Richard Nixon before being forced from office amid the Watergate scandal. After leaving government service, Dr.
Stolzenburg returned to teaching at Harvard Medical School and continued his research into parasitic diseases until his death in 1993.
The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.William Stolzenburg
One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.William Stolzenburg
