Joseph F. Volker attended Rutgers University in the early 1930s before transferring to Indiana University to complete studies in dentistry. He later studied biochemistry in New York, earning a master's and doctoral degree from the University of Rochester.
Joseph Volker as a Young Man
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Courtesy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives
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