John Holmes Dingle
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John Holmes Dingle (24 November 1908–15 September 1973) was an American physician and medical professor.
Dingle was born in Cooperstown, North Dakota in 1908. His father, a Methodist minister, had six much older children by a first marriage, while Dingle was the only child of a second marriage. The family moved to Seattle when he was thirteen, five years after the death of his father, to live with one of his half-brothers.[1]
Dingle completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in pharmacology at the University of Washington, before completing a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1933.[1] He spent the next two years as a bacteriologist with the Maryland State Department of Health Laboratory and Upjohn Company. In 1935 he entered Harvard Medical School, where he studied under Hans Zinsser.[2] During his time at medical school, Dingle, along with fellow student Leroy Fothergill, confirmed that birds played a role in the transmission of Eastern equine encephalitis, which had recently killed five children in New England. He had contributed to more than twenty published papers by the time of his graduation.[1]
