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THE death of Dr. Simon Flexner in New York on May 2, at the age of eighty-three, has deprived America of one of its best-known pathologists. He was born in 1863 at Louisville, Kentucky, and qualified at the University there in 1889. He soon made pathology his choice and studied at Johns Hopkins Hospital and in Europe, where he worked in Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin. At Johns Hopkins Hospital he became associate professor in 1895, and in 1898 professor of pathology. The next year he went to the University of Pennsylvania until 1903, when at the age of forty he was ^appointed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. It was here that he became best known and remained for thirty-two years before retiring in 1935.
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MCCARTNEY, J. Dr. Simon Flexner. Nature 157, 867–868 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157867b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157867b0