Samuel A. Talbot
- Birthdate
- 1903/04/19
- Birthplace
- Holderness, NH, USA
- Death date
- 1967/02/20
- Associated organizations
- Johns Hopkins University
- Fields of study
- Biomedical engineering
Biography
Samuel A. Talbot (IRE Senior Member, 1961) was born in Holderness, New Hampshire, on 19 April 1903. He received the A.B. degree, in 1925, from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; the M.S. degree, in 1931, from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University, in 1932 and 1938, respectively.
Talbot was a Master at the Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut, from 1927 to 1930, and an Instructor and Tutor in Physics at Harvard, from 1930 to 1935. In 1935, he joined the staff of the Department of Ophthalmology, in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, working on physiological optics, and in 1946, he was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine (biophysics). From 1942 to 1944, Talbot worked for the Office of Science Research and Development. His main fields of interest included electro- and ballistocardiography, circulatory biophysics, cardiovascular sound, and biophysical methods and measurements. In 1962, Talbot served as director of the P.H.S. Training Program in Bio-Medical Engineering at Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Talbot was a member of the Physiological Society, the Optical Society, the Society of Experimental Biology, the American Heart Association, the Hospital Physicists Society, the Biophysical Society (secretary), and the Visual Neurophysiology Society.
Further Reading
The Richard J. Johns Collection at Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions - Contains Talbot's two volumes of collected reprints
