Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with S. Allen Counter
S. Allen Counter
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| Other authors / contributors: | Counter, S. Allen, interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Recorded Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005 December 8.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Neurophysiologist and ethnographer S. Allen Counter was born in 1944, in West Palm Beach, Florida. He earned his B.S. degree in science at Tennessee A & I University in Nashville; his Ph.D. degree from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio; post-doctoral work at Harvard University; and his D. M. S. degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Counter conducted extensive research on nerve and muscle physiology, auditory physiology and neurophysiological diagnosis of brain injuries in children in adults. In 1981, he was appointed professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Counter also conducted extensive field research on African-American ethnography. On a mission to Greenland in 1986, he met the offspring of North Pole Explorers Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson, giving him co-equal status to Admiral Byrd. Counter also conducted research on Africans in South America. He was a founding director of the Harvard Foundation and passed away on July 12, 2017 at the age of 73.
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