- Benjamin B. Weinstein
Benjamin Bernard Weinstein (
August 25 ,1913 -May 10 ,1974 ) was aNew Orleans physician who specialized ingynecology andfertility research.Weinstein was born in New Orleans to Jacob Weinstein and the former Nellie Salomon. He graduated from Boy's
High School in 1930. He then received hisbachelor of science degree fromTulane University in New Orleans in 1933. He obtained theM.D. degree from Tulane as well in 1937 and amaster of science in gynecology in 1940.He taught
anatomy and gynecology at theTulane School of Medicine from 1937-1952. In his many gynecologic activities, Weinstein enlisted the help of physicians fromMexico and otherLatin American countries. He supported international perspectives in his fertility studies. He is memorialized through the scholarly annual B.B. Weinstein Lecture in the History of Medicine at Tulane.Weinstein died in New Orleans at the age of sixty.
References
*"Benjamin Bernard Weinstein", "A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography", Vol. 2 (1988), p. 831
*"Who's Who in the South and Southwest"
*Weinstein obituary, "New Orleans Times-Picayune", May 11, 1974
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