Jack Dougan Davidson ’40

Jack, of Ambler, Pa., and Bethesda, Md., died March 20, 2007, at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.

Jack prepared at Newark Academy and majored in chemistry at Princeton, graduating with high honors and as a member of Sigma Xi. He was a member of the gym team, Triangle Club, and Cannon Club. He attended Columbia University Medical School and served as a doctor in the Army, stationed in Honolulu during World War II.

He taught at Columbia University and later moved to Bethesda, Md., where he pursued cancer research and nuclear medicine as part of the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Jack became the first director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at NIH. He also taught at Duke University Medical School.

He always said his most treasured legacies were his family and the medical students he taught. Among his family activities were scouting, 4-H, camping, painting, soap-box derby, Little League, and swimming.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 54 years, Moira Whelan Davidson, and his daughter, Nancy Parker Davidson. His classmates wish to extend their sincere condolences to his daughter, Jean, and her four children, and his sons, James and Robert, and James’ six children.