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 LearningTo the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in MedicineBecoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750–1945Medicine in Chicago, 1850–1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a CityAmerican Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in Intellectual Relations, 1870–1914The Kansas doctor: A century of pioneeringOur Recent Past