A flexner


[fleks-ner] /ˈflɛks nər/
noun
abraham, 1866–1959, u.s. educator.
his brother simon, 1863–1946, u.s. pathologist and bacteriologist.

flexner flex·ner (flěks’nər), simon. 1863-1946.

american microbiologist who isolated the bacillus of dysentery (1900), developed a serum for cerebrospinal meningitis (1907), and led the team that identified the cause of poliomyelitis.

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