Davenport, Horace W., Ph.D., D.Sc.

Dr Davenport was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912. Dr Davenport received both his B.S. (1935) and Ph.D. (1939) California Institute of Technology. Dr Davenport also received a B.A. (1937); B.Sci. (1938) and D.Sc. (1961) from Oxford University. Dr Davenport was a Lilly Research Fellow at the University of Rochester School of Medicine (1939-1940) and Sterling Research Fellow at Yale (1940-1941). Dr Davenport was Instructor at Pennsylvania from 1941-1943 and at Harvard Medical School from 1943-1945. Dr Davenport was Professor in Physiology and Department Chair at the University from 1945-1956. Dr Davenport was later Professor of Physiology at the University of Michigan. Dr Davenport died in 2005. The portrait of Dr Davenport was painted by A.K. Riescher, and is located on the north wall on the upper level of the Eccles Health Sciences Library.