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From his birth in 9 years after his mother’s tubal ligation in 1925 until his death in 2012, Sol Permutt defied all reasonable expectations and conventions. 
He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, a brilliant but undisciplined student whose grades we re outstanding or poor but never average. 


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  • Sol Permutt became an avid bicyclist in his 60s and 70s, riding 11 miles each way from his home in Mount Washington to his office and laboratory on the Francis Scott Key Medical Center campus.

  • Sol Permutt became an avid bicyclist in his 60s and 70s, riding 11 miles each way from his home in Mount Washington to his office and laboratory on the Francis Scott Key Medical Center campus.

  • Jere Meade, Peter Macklem, John Clements, Sol Permutt, Josef Milic-Emili

  • Sol Permutt and Baruch Bromberger-Barnea in their laboratory at the School of Public Health, 
    c 1970s. 

     

  • Sol Permutt and scientific colleagues in the laboratory at Francis Scott Key Medical Center, 
    c 1985. 

     

Solbert Permutt and His Signature Bowties

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Solbert Permutt received the Trudeau Medal from the American Thoracic Society in 1992 for major contributions to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lung disease, critical illness, and sleep disorders. It is the highest honor bestowed by the ATS. In his Trudeau address, he likened the Medal to a Purple Heart, which soldiers receive for wounds in battle. 

“While science is perhaps the most cooperative of all endeavors … it is also confrontational. We thrust and parry ideas like sabers, and we both receive and inflict wounds … our papers are rejected and our grants go unfunded … The work is hard … but it is a noble battle that we are engaged in, for we are fighting for the best in science and medicine. 

We are in the right war at the right time.”