• DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1949.0006
Corpus ID: 159733258

Simon Flexner, 1863-1946

@article{Rous1949SimonF1,
  title={Simon Flexner, 1863-1946},
  author={F. P. Rous},
  journal={Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1949},
  volume={6},
  pages={408 - 445}
}

F. P. Rous

Published 1949

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Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society

If Simon Flexner had been asked to classify himself, beyond doubt he would have deemed his place to lie amongst the most factual of men; for always he concerned himself with immediate situations and his logic was severe. He had no use for prophecy, and visionaries he could not understand. Yet he had vision of the sharpest, seeing the future implicit in the present; and he acted upon what he saw. From youth, as if with foreknowledge, he made himself ready for the needs of a coming time, moulding… CONTINUE READING

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