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Simon Flexner was born on March 25, 1863 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. One of nine children, he was orphaned in his youth. The oldest brother, Jacob, helped Simon first as an apothecary and then as a medical student. Another brother, Abraham, eventually became director of the Rockefeller General Education Board and one of the most important workers to advance American education, especially in medicine.
Flexner received his education at Louisville College of Pharmacy and University of Louisville. He also graduated from John Hopkins University.
Flexner worked as a drugstore apprentice and later as pharmacist in Louisville. Since 1890, he started working at John Hopkins University. Since 1900, Simon became a professor of pathology at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and since 1902, he worked as a director of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and worked till 1935. In 1937, he became an Eastman professor at Oxford University. At last, he worked as an editor for Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Simon Flexner married Helen Whitall Thomas, an author and teacher, in 1903. They had children William Welch and James Thomas.
