Howard Taylor Ricketts

This hangs in the hallway of the Microbiology Department at the Cummings Life Sciences Center at the University of Chicago. Legend has it that our current chairman rescued it from the dumpster during some kind of move or renovation.

In memory of
Howard Taylor Ricketts
1871-1910
Assistant professor of pathology in the University of Chicago
Whose career marked by enthusiasm and rare ability in medical research was cut short by typhus fever contracted during his investigation of that disease in the City of Mexico