1863-1946
Pathologist

Accomplishments.

Early Work.

Meningitis.

Academic Career.

The Rockefeller Institute.

Research Breakthroughs.

Honors and Achievements.

Flexner was the editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine for nineteen years and published reports on his research in pathology and bacteriology. He was chairman of the Public Health Council of New York State and a trustee of the Johns Hopkins University and of the Carnegie Foundation of New York. His most notable achievement may be that of melding a group of individualistic senior colleagues into the renowned Rockefeller Institute.

Source:

Abraham Flexner, Abraham Flexner: An Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960).