Lukes, Robert (1922–1994)

English Names

Robert J. Lukes

Date, Country, and City of Birth

1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Date, Country, and City of Death

December 26, 1994, California, USA

History of Life

Robert J. Lukes was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and went on to earn his medical degree at from Loyola School of Medicine (Fig. 1). He then served his internship at Cleveland City Hospital, with a residency at the Crile Veteran’s Hospital, named in honor of George Washington Crile, who founded the Cleveland Clinic, and affiliated with Case Western Reserve Medical School. Subsequently Dr. Lukes served in the Korean War Theater, as Chief of Pathology of the First Medical Field Laboratory. From this experience, during 1951–1953, he wrote the first detailed description of epidemic hemorrhagic fever, establishing for him the lifelong principle of detailed clinical and pathological correlations as the basis for understanding diseases (Fig. 2).

Fig. 1

Robert J. Lukes at the time of his retirement 1984 (Photo courtesy of...