Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Spouses
MemoStanford University Hospital
EducationUS Naval Academy, 19417555
OccupationStanford University2233
ResidencePalo Alto, CA (1954)2233
Residenceof Atherton (1965)7556
FatherMarsden Scott BLOIS (1891-1964)
MotherMiriam ECKART (1895-1919)
Census
• 1920 Census: Marysville, Yuba, California. Age 11/12ths, b TX. Father b Canada; mother b CA. Living in household of grandfather, George R. Eckart.5610
• 1930 Census: Belmont, San Mateo, California. Age 11, b TX. Father b Canada English; mother b CA.5608
• 1940 Census: San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Age 21, b CA. C2. No employment given. Lived in same place in 1935.7185
• 1930 Census: Belmont, San Mateo, California. Age 11, b TX. Father b Canada English; mother b CA.5608
• 1940 Census: San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Age 21, b CA. C2. No employment given. Lived in same place in 1935.7185
Individual Notes
• Dr. Marsden Scott Blois Jr., an internationally recognized expert in the field of melanoma and skin cancer, lost a 15-year battle against cancer of the lymph system. He was 69.
Blois, who also founded the Melanoma Clinic at UC San Francisco, died Friday at Stanford Hospital after a brief hospitalization.
Blois, born in Texas but who was raised and spent most of his life on the Peninsula, was a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was assigned to the USS Henley, a destroyer that was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on Oct 3, 1943.
A lieutenant at the time Blois and other survivors of the Henley’s crew were in the water seven hours before they were rescued by another ship.
He began his medical studies at Stanford University, where earned a Ph.D in physics, then a medical degree.
In 1957, her was identified as a pioneer in the new field of biophysics when he read his report on the connection between molecular fragments and skin cancer at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
Blois continued his work in skin cancer as a professor of dermatology at UC-San Francisco beginning in 1969 and he founded the Melanoma Clinic at the university in 1971.7555
Blois, who also founded the Melanoma Clinic at UC San Francisco, died Friday at Stanford Hospital after a brief hospitalization.
Blois, born in Texas but who was raised and spent most of his life on the Peninsula, was a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was assigned to the USS Henley, a destroyer that was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on Oct 3, 1943.
A lieutenant at the time Blois and other survivors of the Henley’s crew were in the water seven hours before they were rescued by another ship.
He began his medical studies at Stanford University, where earned a Ph.D in physics, then a medical degree.
In 1957, her was identified as a pioneer in the new field of biophysics when he read his report on the connection between molecular fragments and skin cancer at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
Blois continued his work in skin cancer as a professor of dermatology at UC-San Francisco beginning in 1969 and he founded the Melanoma Clinic at the university in 1971.7555
Children(Private)
Byron Louise (1948-2003)
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