An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner - Softcover

Flexner, James T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823215210 ISBN 13: 9780823215218

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 1993

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Book by Flexner James T

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"[Flexner] has used his talents to illuminate the homely and the grand family personalities and important ideas in this country's history. All thanks to Fordham University Press for bringing us this fine book." * -Maryland Historical Magazine *

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This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga is an historical narrative, grounded on documentary sources, which ends with the marriage of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner. The account deals equally with the lives and the backgrounds of husband and wife, the author's parents. Simon Flexner was the famous medical investigator, discoverer of the "Flexner vacillus" and the "Flexner serum," who became the creating director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) and eventually acknowledged leader of American medical science. The Kentucky-born son of impoverished German Jewish immigrants, he grew up in penury. As he never completed the eighth grade, he was almost completely self-educated when he appeared at the Johns Hopkins University before its celebrated medical school had been founded. Almost instantly he began making the discoveries that soon made him the leading younger medical scientist in the United States.

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• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0823215210
• ISBN 13: 9780823215218
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 546