Simon Flexner
Simon Flexner · Science & Medicine
Pathologist who identified the dysentery bacillus and led the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
1863, Louisville, Kentucky, USA — 1946, New York City, USA
United States
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Simon Flexner was born in Louisville to a Bohemian Jewish immigrant family. A pathologist and bacteriologist, he identified a strain of dysentery bacillus (Shigella flexneri, named for him) and developed an early serum treatment for meningitis. As the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he shaped American biomedical science.
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Pathologist who identified the dysentery bacillus and led the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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