Alexander Gordon Bearn

Who is this?

Alexander Gordon Bearn informally Alick Bearn (March 29, 1923 – May 15, 2009), a physician, scientist and author, was professor at Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and had been Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He died Friday, May 15, 2009, in Philadelphia. Prior to his death Bearn was working on a family history that followed the Bearn family from Béarn, France to Angus, Scotland and finally to the United States.

Career

1. 1923
   Born
2. 1974
   Won honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
3. 2009
   Passed away
4. Member of National Academy of Sciences
5. Member of National Academy of Medicine
6. Member of Royal College of Physicians, London
7. Won Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
8. Won Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Surrey
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, United States
• •Known as: geneticist, university teacher, physician