Robert Hardin, MD, began his five-decades-long career at Iowa in the 1930s. He assisted in pioneering research by Elmer DeGowin, MD, on the preservation, banking, and transfusion of blood. After military service during World War II, he returned to Iowa and developed a national reputation in diabetes research and treatment. In 1964, Hardin assumed additional responsibilities as the university's vice president for medical services and oversaw the construction of a health science library and the Bowen Science Building. The Hardin Library for Health Sciences, which opened in 1974, is named in his honor.
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Monday, January 1, 1962
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