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Name: Abraham Flexner
Birth Date: November 13, 1866
Death Date: September 21, 1959
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Place of Death: Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: educator, reformer

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Biography of Abraham Flexner
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Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) devoted his life to the improvement of teaching and research in America, initiating the modern American medical school and serving as first director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Abraham Flexner was born...


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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Nations have recently been led...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Abraham Flexner Information
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Abraham Flexner (November 13 1866, Louisville, Kentucky - September 21 1959) was an American educator. His Flexner Report, published in 1910, reformed medical education in the United States. He also helped found the Institute for Advanced Study at...


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Academe
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
07/01/2003: 1,036 words, approx. 4 pages
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning Thomas Neville Bonner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 Thomas Bonner brings Abraham Flexner, Louisville's "old schoolmaster" turned national reformer, to life in a new biography, Iconoclast. Drawing heavily on Flexner's autobiography as well...
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Journal of the National Medical Association
Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools
09/01/2006: 8,865 words, approx. 30 pages
"Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools" first appeared in Beyond Flexner: Medical Education in the Twentieth Century, Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz, eds. Copyright 1992 by Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, CT. The article...
 


 

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