Abraham Eisenstark

Abraham Eisenstark (born September 5, 1919, Warsaw, Poland – August 28, 2018) was an American professor of microbiology. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959.

Biography As a child, Eisenstark immigrated to the United States from Poland. After education (including junior college) in Kansas City public schools, he graduated with A.B. and M.A. from the University of Illinois. His study for a Ph.D. in microbiology was interrupted by WW II. He became a technical sergeant in the 8th Medical Laboratory of the U.S. Army Medical Service from 1942 to 1945. His service in the Pacific involved diagnostic procedures for malaria. He returned to graduate study at the University of Illinois and became a research assistant in charge of electron microscopy.

(Note: The tribute to Eisenstark from the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri cited the wrong journal for his work on penicillin. This work was published in the Journal of Bacteriology. The paper that appeared in the journal Science in 1947 reported electron micrographs of X-ray treated Escherichia coli. )

Eisenstark was a faculty member from 1948 to 1951 at Oklahoma State University and from 1951 to 1971 at Kansas State University. His second wife was Joan Ragsdell Eisenstark. Abe Eisenstark died on August 28, 2018. A memorial/ birthday celebration was held later that week on what would have been his 99th birthday at the Unitarian Fellowship in Columbia Missouri.

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