FINN, SIDNEY BERNARD, 1908-1979

Dentist, professor of dentistry.  Born– February 2, 1908, Freedom, Pa. Parents– Abel and Rebecca (Gordon) Finn. Married– Irma Harriett Rubens, May 7, 1938. Children– Two. Education– Ohio State University, B.A., 1930; Harvard University, D.M.D., 1934; University of Rochester, M.S., 1940. Practiced dentistry in Rochester, N.Y., 1935-1938; associate research dentist, New York Department of Health, 1944-1950; chairman of the Department of Pedodontics and professor of dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1951-1958; chairman of applied research for the Institute of Dental Research and professor of dentistry, 1968-1974. Served as director of dental clinics for the Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind, 1951-1974. Received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Alabama Medical Center, 1970; Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard University, 1975. Member of the American Dental Association and International Association for Dental Research.  Died June 6, 1979.

Source:

Who’s Who online

Joint_Publication(s):

Clinical Pedodontics. 4th ed. Philadelphia; Saunders, 1973.

Editor:

The Biology of the Dental Pulp Organ. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1968.

Joint_Editor:

Yearbook of Dentistry. Chicago; Year Book Medical Publishers, 1967-1975.