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Rudolph Fisher


Born
in Washington, DC, The United States
May 09, 1897

Died
December 26, 1934


Born in Washington, DC in the late nineteenth century, Fisher grew up in Providence, Rhode Island graduating from Classical High School and attending Brown University. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Brown in 1919, where he delivered the valedictory address, and received a Master of Arts a year later.[citation needed] He went on to attend Howard University Medical School and graduated in 1924.

Fisher came to New York City in 1925 to take up a fellowship at College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, during which time he published two scientific articles of his research on treating bacteriophage viruses with ultraviolet light. Fisher married Jane Ryder in 1925, and they had one son, Hugh, who was born in 1926.

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“We can make the dark ones bright and the bright ones lighter - that seems to be the ambition in the community. We can fatten thin ones and reduce fat ones.”
― Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure-Man Dies
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“...and I'm sure I saw something like a television receptor on one end of the bench--remember that affair like a big lens set in a square box?”
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