Eugene Hamilton

This article is about the medical researcher. For the bike racer, see Gene Hamilton.

Eugene Green Hamilton (1910-2005) was a pioneering American OB/GYN obstetrician, writer, and medical researcher. He did some of the key writing in the effort to develop a vaccine which fought against Rh disease, a condition which would cause pregnant women's immune system to attack the fetus she is carrying as not being identical to the mother. Hamilton did some of the earliest and best writing about the search for the vaccine, long before diagnostic techniques such as ultrasound had been developed.

Biography

Hamilton was born on June 27, 1910 in White Hall, Illinois. His father was Ray Hamilton, an Illinois physician. In the early 1940s, he married Mary Jo Hickey of Minnesota. They had three children: Barbara, Eugene Jr., and John, who also became an OB/GYN.

He studied medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving his degree in 1941, and then worked as an OB/GYN doctor in several different hospitals, including St. Mary's Health Center. He had a private practice in St. Charles, Missouri which he eventually passed on to his son John. He was also a Professor at Saint Louis University.

Hamilton died on June 1, 2005 of congestive heart failure, in St. Louis, leaving three children and five grandchildren: Eugene G. III, Katherine, Paul, Julie, and Eric.

Writing

• The Rh Factor
• "The Green Journal"
• "Inner Uterus Blood Transfusions" - 1960s

See also

• Rhesus blood group system
• Rh disease
• Rho(D) Immune Globulin

References

• St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 3, 2005, obituary
• St. Louis Business Journal, January 31, 2003, "Hamilton, Ahlering, Gall pinched by insurance hikes"
• "ISO-Immunization" (PDF)
• Universitas, 2005, SLU Newsletter (PDF)

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