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Simon Flexner ForMemRS (March 25, 1863 – May 2, 1946) was a physician, scientist, administrator, and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania (1899–1903). He served as the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901–1935) (later developed as Rockefeller University) and a ...
Simon Flexner (born March 25, 1863, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died May 2, 1946, New York, N.Y.) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist who isolated (1899) a common strain ( Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus and developed a curative serum for cerebrospinal meningitis (1907).
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Simon Flexner (a brother of Abraham Flexner) was a distinguished pathologist who served as the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (RIMR) and as one of the original Rockefeller Foundation (RF) trustees. Flexner was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863.
Simon Flexner was an American pathologist who showed that antibodies formed by experimental infection could neutralize the poliovirus. It was in 1911 that he discovered the poliovirus antibodies, and he was confident that a "cure" would quickly be found.
Simon Flexner, circa 1910s. Flexner was, in any case, so convinced that chemistry would play a central role in medical research that, before undertaking his new duties as director, he spent a year abroad to familiarize himself with “the rapidly advancing science of physiological chemistry”.
Simon Flexner, a newly appointed professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, is named the institute's first director.
Simon Flexner, MD, Professor of Pathology, first Director of the Rockefeller Center for Medical Research, by Adele McGinnis Herter, located in the east-west corridor on the 2nd floor, John Morgan Building.
