1863–1946 American pathologist and first Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Keywords: poliomyelitis; Rockefeller Institute; cerebrospinal meningitis; Welch
Flexner, Simon
Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK
Published online: August 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002791
| Further Reading | |
| Flexner S (1933) Prevention of poliomyelitis. British Medical Journal i: 132–135. | |
| book Flexner S and Flexner JT (1941) William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine. New York: Viking Press. | |
| Benison S (1974) Poliomyelitis and the Rockefeller Institute. Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences 29: 74–92. | |
| book Corner GW (1965) History of the Rockefeller Institute. New York: Rockefeller Institute Press. | |
| book Dictionary of American Biography (1974) supplement 4, pp. 286–289. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.), vol. 5, pp. 39–41. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (1948–1949) 6: 409–445. | |
