Truman Abbe

Truman Abbe was an American surgeon, born in Washington, D.C., on 1 November 1873 and died there on 2 May 1955. He was the son of Cleveland Abbe and the brother of Cleveland Abbe Jr. He graduated from Harvard University in 1895, received his degree in medicine at Columbia University in 1899 and then pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Berlin. He began work at Georgetown University in 1902 and was appointed an instructor at George Washington University in 1905. In 1907 he was awarded a silver medal at the Jamestown Exposition for his researches into the uses of radium in medicine. His papers, covering the years 1894 to 1933, were donated to the National Library of Medicine in 1983, which holds a finding aid for them.