Doft, Dr. Floyd Shelton (Died 1978)

DOFT, FISK

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 4/28/2006 at 03:53:14

Dr. Floyd Shelton Doft, 78, director of the Intitute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases for 10 years before retiring in 1952, died of pneumonia Thursday at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Dr. Doft joined the National Intitutes of Health in 1937, and worked for many years on nutritional problems.

He contributed to a number of technical journals, including the journal of Nutrition, and belonged to a number of professional organizations including the American Chemical Society.

After retiring from NIH, he served until 1966 as a member of the nitrition board of the National Research Council and visiting professor at Einstein Colledge of Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Doft was born in Griswold, iowa. He earned a bachelor's degree at Simpson Colledge and a doctorate at Yale.

Before joining NIH, he worked at Harvard and Yale universities, and was an instructor in biochemistry and experimental pathology at the University of Rochester from 1931 to 1937.

He was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Va.

He is survived by his wife, Pauline M., and a stepson, Leon W. Fisk, both of the home in Chevy Chase, and a sister, Ruth of Atlantic, Iowa.

-Washington Post, Washington D.C., May 28, 1978