Morris Simmonds

Physician, Deceased Person

1855 – 1925

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Who was Morris Simmonds?

Morris Simmonds was a German physician, pathologist, from a family originating in Hanau but born on the then Danish St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands in Caribbean Sea. He was the first to describe the clinical and pathological features of hypopituitarism in 1914; the disease has occasionally been called "Simmonds' disease" in his honour.

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Born
Jan 14, 1855
Saint Thomas
Also known as
  • Dr. Morris Simmonds
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Sep 4, 1925
Hamburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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