1. Simon Flexner was a physician, scientist, administrator, and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania.
13 Facts About Simon Flexner
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Simon Flexner served as the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Simon Flexner was a friend and adviser to John D Rockefeller Jr.
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Simon Flexner was the fourth son of seven in a large family of nine children: Jacob, Henry, and Isadore; then Simon, followed by Bernard Flexner, Abraham Flexner, and Washington.
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Simon Flexner first gained a degree from the Louisville College of Pharmacy and worked with his brother Jacob for eight years.
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Simon Flexner returned to college, getting his medical degree from Louisville Medical College in 1889.
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Simon Flexner did postgraduate work in pathology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and started teaching there.
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Simon Flexner was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1901.
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Simon Flexner taught at Penn until 1903, but was called to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, where he started serving as its first director in 1901.
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Simon Flexner married Helen Thomas and had a family.
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Simon Flexner's son James Thomas Flexner became a prolific writer; one of his works was an extensive biography of George Washington.
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Simon Flexner died in May 1946 in New York City, from a myocardial infarction.
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Simon Flexner's papers are currently housed at the American Philosophical Society and the Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine.