Ralph Wichterman (1907 - 1996)

Born 8 Sep 1907 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Lucille (Swift) Wichterman — married 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died 23 Apr 1996 at age 88 in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ralph was born in 1907. He passed away in 1996.

He married Bessie Swift in 1933.

Albert Szent-Györgyi married June Susan Wichterman, the 25-year-old daughter of Woods Hole biologist Ralph Wichterman, in 1965. They were divorced in 1968.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172245131

• "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JVSS-K22 : 25 September 2017), Wichterman and Bessie Swift, 1933; citing license number 626840, Clerk of the Orphan's Court. City Hall.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQJP-PYM : accessed 19 March 2018), Ralph Wichterman, Ward 50, Philadelphia, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 51-2172, sheet 15A, line 12, family 348, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3754.

• "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZR3-L6W : 4 December 2014), Ralph Wichterman, 23 Apr 1996; from "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Falmouth, Massachusetts, death certificate number 026742, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health Services, Boston.

• "United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KLWM-G3T : 7 July 2017), Ralph Wichterman, Pennsylvania, United States, Apr 1954; citing 1954 National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, 622629, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• Fold3: Social Security Death Index for Ralph Wichterman, 1996

Full Name: Ralph Wichterman

Birth Date: 8 Sep 1907

Death Date: 23 Apr 1996

Last Residence: Woods Hole, MA

• Jstor: Ralph Wichterman, "The ecology, cultivation, structural characteristics and mating types of paramecium calkinsi". Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Vol. 25 (1951), pp. 51-65. Penn State University Press.