Edward Boyden papers, 1954-1976

Professor of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine.

Edward Allen Boyden was born 1886. He was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the University of Illinois School of Medicine. He helped start a medical school at the University of Alabama by reorganzing the school's department of anatomy. He was chairman of the department of anatomy at the University of Minnesota until his retirement in 1954. Boyden mapped the common pattern of the segmental bronchi and their branches, as well as the pulmonary arteries and veins, which assisted surgeons greatly in performing segmental resection of the lung. He developed the concept of gallbladder function and studied the anatomy of the common duct sphincters. In 1974 Dr. Boyden was named an honorary member of the International College of Surgeons in recognition of his work on the anatomy and physiology of the biliary tract and structure and development of the lung. That year he was also honored for 50 years of membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Boyden received the Modern Medicine Achievement Award in 1960, elected an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians in 1961, and in 1970 became the first recipient of the Henry Gray Award of the American Association of Anatomists. He died in 1976 at the age of 90.