Robbins, John B., 1932-2019

LC control no.	n 85363977
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Robbins, John B., 1932-2019 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Robbins, John B., 1932- Robbins, John Bennett, 1932-2019
Associated place	Bethesda (Md.)
Located	Chevy Chase (Md.) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	19321201
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Pediatrics Immunology
Affiliation	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) United States. Food and Drug Administration
Profession or occupation	Pediatricians Immunologists
Found in	Bacterial vaccines, c1986: CIP t.p. (John B. Robbins, M.D.; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.) NLM files, 3/14/86 (hdg.: Robbins, John B., 1932- ) Wow's who in government, 1977: p. 499 (Robbins, John Bennett; b. Dec. 1, 1932) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 20, 2019 (in obituary dated Dec, 19, 2019: John Robbins; in the early years of his career, as a pediatrician in the 1960s, John B. Robbins witnessed the ravages of meningitis. Dr. Robbins decided to become a research scientist, ultimately spending much of his career at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. His most celebrated accomplishment was his role in the creation of a vaccine effective even in infants for the form of meningitis caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b. Dr. Robbins, who had continued his research at NIH until his retirement seven years ago, died Nov. 27 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. John Bennett Robbins was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 1, 1932. Early in his career, he was a pediatrician at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he trained in infectious disease and immunology. In the late 1960s, Dr. Robbins joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, then moved in 1970 to NIH as clinical director at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He worked for the Food and Drug Administration for a decade before returning to NIH in 1984 to found the Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity. He was a longtime resident of Chevy Chase, Md., before returning in recent years to New York)