Wojciech Antoni "Al" Krotoski papers

Collection

Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2019-018

Abstract

Personal papers related to career PHS Officer Krotoski's research on malaria and other tropical diseases, primarily from his duty station at National Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, La., especially his work on the discovery of the hypnozoite form of malaria in 1980. Contents include photomicroscopy slides/prints with accompanying lab notebook inventory; travel and teaching slides esp. from foreign research projects in China, Marshall Islands; publication files; research and administrative correspondence; conference presentations; research subject files.

Dates

Creation: 1950s-1995

Extent

13.9 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Creator

Krotoski, Wojciech A. (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

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Biographical/Historical Note

Krotoski was a Polish citizen born in Riga, Latvia. Krotoski graduated in 1952 from Loyola High School in Los Angeles and began college at the age of fifteen, but he did not receive his Bachelor of Arts degree in bacteriology until 1960 from the University of California at Los Angeles. He entered graduate school and then medical school in 1961. In 1968, he received a Ph.D. in medical microbiology as well as his M.D. degree and interned at Gorgas Hospital in Panama. In 1969, he returned from the Canal Zone to the United States upon receipt of a commission in the Public Health Service. He was assigned to research malaria at the National Institutes of Health office in Chamblee, Georgia. In 1972, he undertook a residency in preventive medicine at the public health hospital in San Francisco. This training required him to visit tropical centers in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Having completed the residency in 1974, he received the Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley. In the summer of 1975, he came to the public health hospital in New Orleans to establish a tropical infectious disease research program. He subsequently traveled to the Marshall Islands as a consultant in a radiological health program. This assisgnment included a visit to Bikini Atoll. In 1980, with the technical assistance of his former wife, Danuta Gwozdziowski, and others, he discovered the cause of relapse in malaria as a hypnozoite. For this endeavor, he was nominated in 1989 for a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. When the public health hospital system closed in 1981, Dr. Krotoski began work at the National Hansen's Disease Center in Carville in Iberville Parish near Baton Rouge. He worked there until his retirement in 1995. (from https://www.conservapedia.com/Al_Krotoski)