Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss (3 February 1899 – 13 March 1979) was an American scientist who served as the first director of The Public Health Research Institute of The City of New York; he left temporarily during World War II "to take up important duties with the American armed forces.
[3] The New York Times wrote that it was a "Job Local Doctors Refused", and Muckenfuss had a position as a bacteriologist of Washington University in St.
[5] By 1953, he had moved to the parent body, and his title was "assistant commissioner of the Health Department."
[7] When New York City had a smallpox crisis in 1947, Muckenfuss "telephoned officials of three drug companies in their homes over the weekend and asked them to start maximum production", and the mayor entrusted him with managing the situation.
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