Thomas N. Bonner


Thomas Neville Bonner was professor emeritus at Wayne State University and a leading historian of medicine. Bonner was the twelfth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1971 to 1974. After 3 years at UNH he became the fifteenth president of Union College from 1974 to 1978. He then became the seventh president of Wayne State University from 1978 to 1982. Bonner was a U.S. Army World War II veteran as part of the Military [Intelligence Service (United States)|Army Signal Intelligence Unit] in Europe. He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona.

Selected publications

  • Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
  • To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine
  • Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945
  • Medicine in Chicago, 1850–1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City
  • American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in Intellectual Relations, 1870–1914
  • The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneering
  • Our Recent Past
  • ''The contemporary world: The social sciences in historical perspective''