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Stanley M. Harmon
Author Stanley Harmon was born in the Ozarks in rural Arkansas in 1935. An ancestor and others of his kin fought in Confederate units during the Civil War He earned his Bachelor’s in science at the...view moreAuthor Stanley Harmon was born in the Ozarks in rural Arkansas in 1935. An ancestor and others of his kin fought in Confederate units during the Civil War He earned his Bachelor’s in science at the University of Arkansas in Jan 1957 and later did graduate studies at the Masters and PhD level in Washington DC. He has a Liberal Arts education, as well as emphasis in the sciences including several college courses and even post graduate courses in history. He served in the U. S Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC in 1958 and 1959 during which service in the Medical Service Corps he was sent with a team of scientists to the A Bomb test site near Reno, Nevada to determine the killing power of t a Neutron A Bomb. That service gave him opportunity to visit iconic Battlefields of the Civil War and he wrote a history of the Civil War as follow on to an essay he wrote as a college student about the battle of Gettysburg... During that time, he considered attending Graduate School to become a Professor of History but when he got back from Nevada he did the bacteriological investigation of a mass food poisoning on a train bound for Washington that was caused by the gangrene germ. He subsequently spent the rest of his career as a research scientist with the US Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC becoming a methods expert and World authority of the gangrene germ the commonest cause in that time of bacterial food poisoning. He was a Professor in the FDA Graduate School for Microbiology and as frequent guest lecturer at Universities and at scientific conferences. He also published some 50 papers in scientific journals about his research and chapters for the most prestigious books in the field. In retirement, he has authored several books including one about Presidential history and this one about the cause of the American Civil War in 2011 as well as one about Bipolar Disorder and another about Science.view less
Books by Stanley M. Harmon
Irrepressible Conflict: the Cause of the American Civil War: And the Sad, Tragic, Story of It Resulting in Deaths of so Many