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Davidoff Leo (1898-1975)

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SurnameDavidoff
NameLeo
Birth year1898
Birth month1
Birth day16
Birth placeTalsi
Death year1975
Death month12
Death day23
Death placeUSA
SexM

Davidoff Leo Max (16 January 1898, Talsi – 23 December 1975, USA) — neurosurgeon, professor.

Leo Max Davidoff emigrated to the United States at the age of 8. In 1922, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University.

From June to October 1925, he served as a surgeon in the Byrd-MacMillan Arctic expedition. He later specialized in neurosurgery. In 1949, Davidoff became the director of Beth Israel Hospital in New York.

He authored over 200 articles and 12 books.

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Selected works.: Leo M. Davidoff and Cornelius G. Dyke: The Normal Encephalogram. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1937; Leo M. Davidoff and Bernard S. Epstein: The Abnormal Pneumoencephalogram.Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1950.

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