biography
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| (1913–93)
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| biography:
| Physician, writer, and educator, born in Flushing, New York, USA. A surgeon's son, he studied at Princeton (1933) and Harvard Medical School (1937), and taught medicine at Johns Hopkins, Tulane, the University of Minnesota, New York University, and Yale, before becoming a professor of medicine at the Medical School of Cornell in New York City (1973). He served as chief executive officer of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City (1973–80) and was a member of many public and private advisory agencies. A best-selling writer, he discussed the place of humans in the biological world in such books as The Lives of a Cell (1974; National Book Award, 1975), Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony (1983), and The Fragile Species (1992). |
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