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Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen was born 14 Nov. 1886 in the coastal town of Grimstad, in Aust-Agder county, just southwest of Oslo, Norway. He died 16 June 1953 in Boston Massachusetts. He was the son of Morten Smith-Petersen and Kaia Jensine Ursin an acclaimed violinist. The Smith-Petersens were a prominent and influential family. His grandfather Morten Smith-Petersen was a member of Stortinget (Parliament), owned a shipbuilding company where he built many great sailing vessels in his shipyard known as Hasseldalen in Grimstad Norway. His grandfather was a skillful businessman amassing a great fortune in the importing, exporting business. He emigrated with his mother to Milwaukee, Wisc. in 1903, at age 16.He attended the University of Chicago for one year and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, receiving a B.S. from in 1910. At the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin,, he worked as a laboratory assistant to physiologist, Dr. Joseph Erlanger. Smith-Petersen and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1914. He served a surgical internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston MA under Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. He was a hospital surgeon in France during WWI. Was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav by the King of Norway. He was a brilliant surgeon and a gifted professor. Books and journal publications lEvolution of Mould Arthroplasty of the Hip Joint (Lippincott-Raven Publishers)
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