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Dr. Harry Angelman Biography

 

The Angelman syndrome is named by Dr. Harry Angelman who found this neurogenetic syndrome in 1965.

He was an english physician, was born 1915 in Birkenhead and died 8th Aug 1996.

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He studied medicine at the University of Liverpool and graduated in 1938. He joined the Royal

Army Medical Corps during World War II in India. He returned to England in 1946.

Since 1950 he worked as a consultant pediatrician at Warrington General Hospital, Lancashire

where he retired in 1976.[1]

 

 

 

 

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Footnotes

  1. Enersen, Ole Daniel. "Who named it." 2009, Web. 31 Oct 2009. .
  2. "Dr. Harry Angelman." Heaven must be missing an angel. Web. 31 Oct 2009. .