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Joseph

Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was

a U.S. medical doctor

and virologist. He introduced chloramphenicol as treatment for rickettsial diseases. In 1962, he became the first recipient

of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research . The

working peace system was built around international agencies. They had

functional responsibilities in managing those problems for which there was a

consensus to cooperate. These international agencies were to assume some of the

attributions of nation-states, within the so-called ramification process which

involved a constant transfer of functions and authority from states to

agencies. The phenomenon in question made no distinction between protagonists.

The consequence of ramification was a domino effect, as cooperation in one

field could lead to a new cooperation in another field. The

best known tenet of political functionalism form follows function does

actually not originate from Mitrany, but from the functionalism of

industrial design. It was just used to popularize Mitrany’s concept.

Smadel was born in Vincennes, Indiana, the

son of medical doctor Joseph William Smadel and former nurse Clara Greene

Smadel. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania then

obtained a medical degree from the Washington

University School of Medicine, St. Louis in 1931. It

was at WU that he met his future wife, Elizabeth Moore. Smadel was a member of

the virological team that first recognized an outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis in

1933. Smadel then moved on to New York City to work under scientists Homer Swift and Thomas M. Rivers at the Rockefeller Institute.

While there, Smadel took a strong interest in the new field of virology. He

formed a productive, long term professional association with Dr. Rivers, the

two of them jointly publishing numerous articles. Utilizing the then new

techniques of ultra-centrifugation and chemical fractionation,

Smadel made significant contributions to the understanding of myxomatosis, viral encephalitis, variola, vaccinia, and psittacosis. Smadel joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in

December, 1940, but went on full-time active duty with the U.S. Army’s Medical Department Professional Service School (MDPSS) in

August, 1942. (The MDPSS officially became the Walter Reed

Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in 1953 after a number of

intermediate name changes.) The freshly commissioned Captain Smadel was assigned

as Chief Virologist with the First Medical General Laboratory in the European Theater with the mission of controlling the

outbreak of typhus May 1943. Following the Normandy invasion, he was assigned to an advanced field laboratory

in France. Following the Allied victory in Europe, Lieutenant Colonel Smadel

became the Director of the Department Of Virus and Rickettsial Diseases with at

the WRAIR, a position he held after his return to civilian life. Perhaps

Smadel’s most notable professional achievement was the series of field studies

in Kuala Lumpur in 1948 which established chloramphenicol as an effective

treatment for typhus and typhoid fever. In the 1950s, under Smadel’s direction,

WRAIR established itself as one of the première institutes for the study of

infectious diseases. Research programs there included the study fever, arboviral diseases, enteric diseases, cholera, and rickettsial diseases such as typhus. Smadel after

exerting much pressure on Jonas Salk and Basil O'Connor was in early 1954 given the assignment of

weiting the production protocols for the Polio Vaccine. In

1956 Smadel left the Institute to become the Associate Director of the National Institutes of

Health. In 1963, he assumed a new position as Chief, Laboratory of

Virology and Rickettsiology, Division of Biologics Standards, National

Institutes of Health, which he held until his death.

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