biography
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Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth
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| female
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| lived:
| (1901–68)
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| biography:
| Paediatrician and microbiologist, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She studied at Baltimore's Goucher College (1923 BA), then worked as a bacteriologist for state and federal Public Health Services for three years to save money for medical school. In 1930 she received her MD from Johns Hopkins University and specialized in paediatrics at the Harriet Lane Home in Baltimore. She was a research and teaching staff member of New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center for 37 years. Her studies on influenzal meningitis resulted in a successful treatment for this previously fatal disease (1939), and her research into DNA during the 1940s made her one of the first geneticists. |
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