Julian Elvis Ward Jr.

Captain (Dr.) Julian Ward, MD (March 15, 1927 - August 13, 1962 ) was an American physician who made contributions to aerospace medicine and the Mercury space program.

Biography On March 15, 1927, Julian Elvis Ward Jr. was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. In 1952, he received M.D., M.S. (pathology, cum laude) degrees from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed an internship at San Francisco City-County Hospital. Ward's involvement in the space program should be seen in the context of the Cold War in which the United States was engaged following WWII and President Kennedy's dramatic proposal of US commitment to the goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. One publication that achieved widespread attention was "The True Nature of the Boiling of Body Fluids in Space",