Kenneth F. Maxcy

Kenneth F. Maxcy (July 27, 1889 – December 12, 1966) was an American virologist. He was a Professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology from 1938 until 1954. He was an authority on rickettsial diseases and typhus.[1]

In 1952, Maxcy chaired the committee of the National Resource Council that recommended the fluoridation of drinking water. He later served nine years as director of the Rockefeller Institute's International Health Division.[1] He received the Sedgewick Memorial Medal in 1952, the highest honor of the American Public Health Association.[1]