Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery
Theobald Smith

Theobald Smith

SMITH, THEOBALD (1859–1934), inducted between 1920–1948

The portrait of pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist, Dr. Theobald Smith, was hanging in the collection in 1948, but did not appear in the 1951 catalogue. Whereabouts are unknown. Dr. Smith discovered the bacterium Salmonella, named for his supervisor Dr. Daniel Salmon (also represented in the portrait collection), as well as the parasite responsible for Texas fever.

Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 181

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