As published at
The Frederick News
Post website on March 3, 2008.
Dr. Joseph Edward "Ed" RaIl, MD Ph.D., 88,
Internationally Renowned Research Scientist, died Thursday, Feb.
28, at the home of his daughter in Rocky Ridge. Born Feb. 3,
1920 in Naperville, Ill., he was a son of the late Dr. Edward
Everett and Nell Platt Rall.
Dr. Rall was graduated from North Central
College, Naperville, Ill., where he received his bachelors; he
earned his doctor of medicine from Northwestern University,
Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He
served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II, in
Germany with the 385th Station Hospital.
Dr. RaIl received the Van Meter Award in
1950. Among his many positions he was at the Mayo Clinic; The
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute; Chief of the Clinical
Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Arthritis,
Metabolism and Digestive Diseases at NIH; Director of Intramural
Research at the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes,
Digestive and Kidney Diseases for 21 years, and Deputy Director
of Intramural Research at NIH for eight years.
A prolific writer, he was the author of
numerous articles and chapters in medical journals, including
books on Thyroid Gland Radiation. In 1959, he was the recipient
of the Fleming Award. He also held membership in the National
Academy of Science, and the National Academy of Arts and
Science.
Surviving are his daughter with whom he
lived, Priscilla Rall and husband, Richard Stambaugh of Rocky
Ridge; a son Edward C. Rall and wife, Sue of Kensington; three
grandchildren, Caroline Smith, Amanda Smith, both of Baltimore,
and Johanna Rall of Kensington; four step-grandchildren, Paul
Heims Jr. Shannon Bye, Jeffiey Heims, and Carrie Heims; numerous
step-great grandchildren; a sister-in-law Gloria RaIl of
Washington, D.C. also survive; several nieces and nephews also
survive including, Cate Ertel and family; Sylvia.
Interment will be private.
