of nine years including the Spanish War. Founder of the Army Medical School. Scientist, author and philanthropist. M. D., LL. D. Along with Pasteur and Koch, Sternberg is credited with first bringing the fundamental principles and techniques of the new science of bacteriology within the reach of the average physician. A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Awards and accolades Honorary degree of LL.D., University of Michigan (1894) Honorary degree of LL.D., Brown University (1897). Honorary member, Epidemiological Society of London, the Royal Academy of Rome, the Academy of Medicine of Rio Janeiro, the American Academy of Medicine, and the French Society of Hygiene. Member (and one time president) of the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Washington Biological Society, and the Philosophical Society of Washington (of which he was President in 1900). See also United States Army Medical Department Museum, Ft Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas References Additional sources This article contains information that originally came from US Government publications and websites and is in the public domain. "The Trials and Tribulations of George Miller Sternberg (1838–1915) – America's First Bacteriologist," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Summer 1993. Vol. 36, Iss. 4; pg. 666. Who's Who in America, 1914–15 Kober, G. M. (Editor), Address Delivered at the Complimentary Banquet to Gen. George M. Sternberg – on his Seventieth Birthday (1908) Abbott, A. C. in Tr. Coll. Physicians Philadelphia (1918) Kelly and Burrage, American Medical Biographies (1920) Pilcher, J. E., Surgeon Generals of the Army (1905) Obituary in Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), November 3, 1915. Phalen, Col. James M. (Compiler), "Chiefs of the Medical Department, U.S. Army 1775–1940, Biographical Sketches," Army Medical Bulletin, No. 52, April 1940, pp. 70–74. External links Video: Sternberg Medical Pioneers Biography on Health.mil – The Military Health System provides a look at the life and work of George Sternberg. The Surgeons General of the U.S. Army and Their Predecessors at the Office of Medical History, OTSG Website University of Virginia, Walter Reed Typhoid Fever, 1897–1911 Describes Sternberg's continuing role in the Typhoid Fever Board Biography at Virtualology.com Dr. George M. Sternberg – Oceans of Kansas Xiphactinus audax – Oceans of Kansas 1838 births 1915 deaths American people of the Indian Wars American bacteriologists Burials at Arlington National Cemetery American people of German descent People