- Felix Fleischner
Felix Fleischner, MD, (1893 - August 1969) was an Austrian-American radiologist from Boston. The
Fleischner Society for thoracic imaging and diagnosis is named after him. [*cite journal
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quote = ]He was born in Vienna and became an expert in the field of radiology, publishing many scientific papers and serving as Professor and head of radiology of the Second Medical Clinic of the
University of Vienna .He moved to Boston after Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938, and became the firt full-time radiologist at the
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in 1942, and a faculty member at theHarvard Medical School . [ [http://www.interzone.com/~cheung/SUM.dir/med96.html Explorations in Medicine: The History of Radiology at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, by Morris Simon, M.D.] ]References
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