George Sumner Huntington

for|the physician who is the eponymous researcher of Huntington's disease|George Huntingtoncite journal |author=van der Weiden RM |title=George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington. A tale of two doctors |journal=Hist Philos Life Sci |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=297–304 |year=1989 |pmid=2534642 |doi= |url= |issn=] Infobox Writer
name = George Sumner Huntington


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birth_date = March 21, 1861
birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut
death_date = January 5, 1927
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occupation = Professor, Doctor
nationality = American
genre = Science, Medicine
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Dr. George Sumner Huntington (March 21, 1861cite encyclopedia
last = Hrdlička
first = Aleš
authorlink = Aleš Hrdlička
title = Biographical Memoir of George Sumner Huntington 1861-1827
encyclopedia = National Academy of Sciences of the United States Biographical Memoirs
volume = XVIII, Eleventh Memoir
pages = 249
publisher = National Academy Press
location = Washington, D. C.
date = 1937
oclc = 11825701
url = http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ghuntington.pdf] -January 5, 1927) was a medical doctor, a researcher into comparative anatomy, and a college professor. For thirty-five years he was a professor of anatomy at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. [cite encyclopedia
last = Hrdlička
first = Aleš
authorlink = Aleš Hrdlička
title = Biographical Memoir of George Sumner Huntington 1861-1827
encyclopedia = National Academy of Sciences of the United States Biographical Memoirs
volume = XVIII, Eleventh Memoir
pages = 257
publisher = National Academy Press
location = Washington, D. C.
date = 1937
oclc = 11825701
url = http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ghuntington.pdf]

He had attended the college he taught at and graduated in 1884 with honors, winning 1st place in both the Harsen prize for Clinical Reports and for Proficiency in Examination. [Citation
title = YOUNG RECRUITS OF MEDICINE; COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
newspaper = The New York Times
date = May 14, 1884
year = 1884
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E7D6113BE033A25757C1A9639C94659FD7CF] Among other degrees he received was an honorary Bachelor of Laws from Jefferson Medical College in 1907. [cite journal
author = Charles F. W. McClure
journal = American Journal of Anatomy
title = George Sumner Huntington: An Appreciation
volume = 39
issue = 3
publisher = Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
location = Baltimore, Maryland
year = 1927
issn = 1553-0795
doi = 10.1002/aja.1000390302
pages = 355–377]

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* [http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/ghuntington.pdf Biographical memoir] from the United States National Academy of Sciences

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NAME=Huntington, George Sumner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=George S. Huntington
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American comparative anatomist and professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
DATE OF BIRTH=March 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH=Hartford, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH=January 5, 1927
PLACE OF DEATH=