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Born in Chapel Hill, William de Berniere MacNider graduated in the first class of UNC's medical school in 1903, organized the university's first Department of Pharmacology in 1905 and was dean of the School of Medicine from 1937 to 1940. He is buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery, and MacNider Hall is named for him.
Source: NCpedia: MacNider, William de Berniere
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Selections from the essays and addresses of William de Berniere MacNider, pharmacologist and physician at the University of North Carolina, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1953, two years after his death. Includes a portrait and a list of his publications.
Letters to Leone Burns Newell, a Charlotte physician, from Dr. William de Berniere MacNider, the University of North Carolina pharmacologist, beginning in 1913. The 83 items mix personal news with word of changes in the university's medical department and of the 1919 influenza epidemic in Chapel Hill.
Medical education is the main theme of the papers of William de Berniere MacNider (1881-1951), about 25,000 items in 27.5 linear feet dated 1905 to 1951, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 837. Topics include the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, the teaching of pharmacology and public health in Chapel Hill, medical societies, and family social life in the state.
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