Dorothy M. Horstmann
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1911 – 2001
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Who was Dorothy M. Horstmann?
Dorothy Millicent Horstmann was an American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician whose research on the spread of poliovirus in the human bloodstream helped set the stage for the development of the polio vaccine. She was the first woman appointed as a professor at the Yale School of Medicine.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1911
Spokane - Also known as
- Dorothy Horstmann
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, San Francisco
- Died
- Jan 11, 2001
New Haven
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on July 23, 2013
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