George Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. (June 23, 1910-July 27, 1977).

On July 27, 1977, George Rosen died suddenly in Oxford, England. He and Mrs. Rosen had planned to travel leisurely through the English countryside, enjoying themselves as they had so often in the past, and ultimately to arrive in Scotland in time for Professor Rosen to deliver a keynote address and participate in a symposium on "Medicine and Industrialization in History" [1]. Professor of the History of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale since 1969, he was regarded, nationally and internationally, as one of the elder statesmen and preeminent scholars