Robert O. Wilson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Robert O. Wilson

American physician

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1906

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1967

Profession: physician

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Robert O.
Wilson, MD (October 5, 1904 – November 16, 1967) was an American physician born to Protestant missionaries Wilbur F.
Wilson and Mary Rowley Wilson in Nanjing, China.
Wilson attended Princeton University and subsequently obtained his medical training at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1929.
He returned to Nanjing in 1936, where he assumed a housestaff position at Drum Tower Hospital of Gin Ling University (Nanjing University).
Amidst the chaos and bloodshed that followed in the years leading up to the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, Wilson worked tirelessly at his post, eventually becoming one among only a handful of physicians who had not left the city by 1937.