Paul Arnow

An authority on hospital-acquired infections, prevention of infections in transplant and ICU patients, and Legionnaires' disease, Paul M. Arnow, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago from 1979 to 2002, died from a heart attack at his vacation home in Wisconsin on March 28, 2005. He was 58.

Paul Michael Arnow was born in Chandler, Arizona, on December 16, 1946. He earned his A.B. degree from Princeton University, where he was captain of the wrestling team, and his M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco in 1972. He did his internship, residency and fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Illinois at Chicago between 1972 and 1978, interrupted by two years (1974-76) as a medical epidemiologist at the Hospitals Infections Branch of the Centers for Disease Control.

During this time he maintained his professional wanderlust by spending one month a year working on health assessment and public health projects in Cambodia and later in Kenya. In 1990, Arnow befriended a Cambodian war-lord turned politician who would smuggle him into the country for annual projects, ranging from designing a new hospital to assessing the nation's AIDS risks.

Arnow came to the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1978 and joined the faculty as an assistant professor and hospital epidemiologist in 1979, becoming an associate professor in 1985 and a professor of medicine in 1994. He served as acting chief of infectious disease at the Hospitals from 1987 to 1993 and chief from 1993 to 2002.

Arnow is survived by his wife, Hilary, and their son, Saul, and a sister, Eleanor Gerst, of Pasadena, California.

Katherine Austin Lathrop

A pioneer in the study of the biological effects of radiation, the development and testing of radiotracers in the early days of nuclear medicine and a member of the Manhattan Project, Katherine A. Lathrop, Professor Emerita in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, died at a nursing home in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on March 10, 2005, from natural causes. She was 89.

Born June 16, 1915, in Lawton, Oklahoma, Katherine Austin showed an early interest in science. She earned her B.S. degrees in biology (1936) and physics (1939) and her M.S. in chemistry (1939) from Oklahoma State University, where she met Clarence A. Lathrop, whom she married in 1938.

Lathrop worked as a junior biochemist in the Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project, from 1945 to 1946 studying the uptake, retention, tissue distribution and excretion of radioactive materials in animals. From 1947 to 1954 she was an associate biochemist at Argonne National Laboratory. Lathrop rose steadily though the ranks to become a professor. She shifted to emerita status in 1985, at age 70, but remained active in research, publishing her last paper in 1999 and retiring the next year.

Lathrop is survived by four children: Jane Ellen Lathrop Grider of Las Cruces, New Mexico; Laura Eugene Lathrop Fowler of Santa Fe, New Mexico; David Austin Lathrop of Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Julia Louise Lathrop Smiddy of Valparaiso, Indiana, as well as ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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