Alfred Sommer
Alfred Sommer · Science & Medicine
Epidemiologist who showed vitamin A prevents childhood blindness and death
1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
United States
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Alfred Sommer is an ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins whose field trials proved that inexpensive vitamin A supplementation sharply reduces childhood blindness and mortality in the developing world. His discovery reshaped global public-health policy and is estimated to save hundreds of thousands of children each year. He is Jewish.
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Epidemiologist who showed vitamin A prevents childhood blindness and death
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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