Aaron Frederick "Fred" Rasmussen Jr. (May 27, 1915, St. Anthony, Idaho – March 17, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American physician, professor of microbiology and immunology, and, later in his career, associate dean of the UCLA School of Medicine.
in 1944 from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he was a research associate from 1941 to 1942 and an instructor from 1942 to 1943.
[8] In 1969 at the UCLA School of Medicine, he was appointed associate dean, a position he held until his sudden, unexpected death in 1984 from an acute pulmonary embolism.
[12][13] In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Rasmussen and his colleagues investigated the effects of emotional stress in animal models for various viral infections, such as herpes simplex, Coxsackie B, vesicular stomatitis, poliomyelitis, and polyoma.
Their son, Frederick Tatum Rasmussen (1943–2020), became a lawyer and partner at several law firms in Seattle.