"For his first degree, Ralph studied microbiology at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. An Irish immigrant, he moved to New York in 1956 to begin his Ph.D. studies at Cornell University. A grant from the United Fruit Company related to banana wilt disease sponsored his studies. He began his independent academic career with an appointment in environmental microbiology by joining the nascent Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1962."
"Subsequently, Ralph joined Harvard in 1966 as an Assistant Professor of Applied Biology in (what was then called) the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. After a number of seminal papers on microbial and viral growth and death in aquatic environments, he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969 and became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Biology in 1970 in what subsequently became the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2007."
Ralph Mitchell studied microbiology at Trinity College Dublin and earned a Ph.D. at Cornell, supported by a United Fruit Company grant on banana wilt disease. He began his independent career at the Weizmann Institute in 1962 and joined Harvard in 1966 as Assistant Professor of Applied Biology. He published seminal work on microbial and viral growth and death in aquatic environments, became Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Biology, and later Professor Emeritus in 2009. He remained active in environmental and occupational health as an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He advocated for microbial sciences and emphasized microbes' central role.
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