Paul F. Cranefield, M.D., Ph.D. April 28, 1925 to May 31, 2003

Author of:
Born Wanderer: The Life of Stanley Portal Hyatt.

He was a medical historian who wrote extensively on the history of physiology in the 19th century. 
For many years, Dr. Cranefield found time to travel throughout Southern Africa, and he wrote 
Science and Empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal, which traced the social, 
governmental, and economic impact of the disease as well as the path of discovery that led 
to its identification: intrigued by a central character in that history, he subsequently 
published a follow up book, entitled Born Wanderer: The Life of Stanley Portal Hyatt. 
Dr. Cranefield was an avid bibliophile and collector of early scientific books. He was a fellow 
of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, and of the New York Academy of Medicine, 
where he served variously as chairman of the Committee on Library, president of the Friends of 
the Rare Book Room, and as editor of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. He served 
on the Ad Hoc Committee on Historical Translations of the American Association for the History 
of Medicine. He was also a member of the American Physiological Society, the Society of General 
Physiologists, and the American Philosophical Society, and he was a charter member of the 
Biophysical Society.