Paul E. Boyle
Founder &
President, 1949-1950
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Paul E. Boyle was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1900. He attended Dartmouth College and then graduated from Harvard Dental School in 1923. He spent three years in general practice before joining Harvard's faculty as a teacher of operative dentistry in 1932 as Instructor in Oral Pathology. In 1944 he became Professor of Oral Histology and Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania Dental School. In 1956 he was appointed Dean of Western Reserve University School of Dentistry. In 1971 he retired from the deanship and returned to New England, becoming a Visiting Professor at Harvard until his death in 1980.
He was President of the American Board of Oral Pathology and of the International Association for Dental Research, Director-at-Large of the American Cancer Society and Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Centennial Award from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Pierre Fauchard Medal. An annual Paul E. Boyle Lecture was established at Case-Western Reserve University and the Paul Edmond Boyle Fund for Teaching and Research in Oral Pathology at Harvard. He was co-author of Histopathology of the teeth and their surrounding structures, 1953.
His publications include Histopathology of the human tooth germ in congenital syphilis, J Dent Res, 1932; Manifestations of vitamin A deficiency in a human tooth germ, J Dent Res, 1933; Preliminary observations on the enamel of human and guinea pig teeth using the electron microscope, J Dent Res, 1946; Natural vital staining of teeth of infants and children, Am J Ortho Oral Surg, 1941; and Who should take a biopsy?, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol,1955.
These notes and photos are from: Robinson HBG. History of the American Academy of Oral Pathology 1946-1987. The American Academy of Oral Pathology, Chicago, 1988, pp. 1-100. Used with permission.