Simon Flexner
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Simon Flexner was an American physician, scientist, administrator, and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the first director of the Rockefeller Institu
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Illustration of Flexner on a 1912 cover of Popular Science Monthly
James Thomas Flexner
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James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Pr
Simon Flexner
…1910 to 1914 he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institution. Simon Flexner married Helen Thomas (later professor of English) and had a family. His son James Thomas Flexner became a prolific writer; one of his works was an extensive biography of George Washington. Simon Flexner died in May 1946 in New York City, from a…
James Thomas Flexner