Simeon Burt Wolbach (July 3, 1880 – March 19, 1954) was an American pathologist, researcher, teacher, and journal editor who elucidated the infection vectors for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus.
[3] Wolbach attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard for his undergraduate degree.
[2] From 1903 to 1905, he completed his postgraduate studies in pathology at the Boston City Hospital under Frank Burr Mallory and William T. Councilman.
In 1905, Wolbach returned to Harvard Medical School and worked as a pathology assistant under Councilman.
With J. M. Coppoletta at Brigham and Children's Hospitals, he developed tables of weights of vital organs for different ages and body lengths that became a definitive reference for pediatric pathology.