Paul Bruce Beeson (18 October 1908 – 14 August 2006) was an American physician and professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases and the pathogenesis of fever.
After two years as an intern at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he joined his father's and elder brother's practice in Wooster, Ohio.
In 1939 he relocated to Harvard Medical School's teaching affiliate Peter Brent Brigham Hospital to work under Soma Weiss.
Beeson persuaded Cecil Howard Green, founder of Texas Instruments, to endow the first one million British pounds to establish the college.
With typical generosity, he retired from the chair in Oxford a year earlier than he needed so his successor, David Weatherall, could have a hand in designing the new department which was to be created at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
[3]Beeson and Petersdorf published a clinical study of patients with persistent fevers of unknown cause – they suggested guidelines for diagnosing the causes.