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52 FARRERAS

Eberhart was already well known to Felix and the NIMH scientists,

having headed the NIMH’s extramural Research Grants and Fellow­

ships Branch (after Lawrence Coleman Kolb) from 1949 to 1954. In 1954,

he had left to go to the Commonwealth Foundation but he returned to

the NIMH in 1961 to head its intramural basic research program.

John C. Eberhart, Ph.D.

Donated to the Office of NIH History

by Dr. Morris Parloff

Notes

1. Topping had expected to succeed Rolla E. Dyer when the latter retired
   as NIH director on October 1, 1950. He left for the vice presidency of
   medical affairs at the University of Pennsylvania when William H. Sebrell,
   Jr.–formerly director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine–
   was appointed the new NIH director instead. (Felix, oral history by
   Rubinstein; Sebrell, oral history by Siepert and Carrigan). See Norman
   Topping, Recollections (Los Angeles: University of Southern California
   Press, 1990).


2. Felix, oral history by Rubinstein; Sebrell, oral history by Siepert and
   Carrigan. Several candidates were considered for the position prior to
   Kety, including Gregory Pincus and Hudson Hoagland. Harold Harlow
   was actually offered the position but turned it down when the University
   of Wisconsin made him a better offer (John Clausen, oral history by Eli
   Rubinstein, January 9, 1978, transcript, NIMH Oral History Collection,
   OH 144, NLM).


3. Felix, oral history by Rubinstein; Louis Sokoloff, “Seymour S. Kety,
   1915-2000,” Biographical Memoirs, 38 (2003): 1-21.