Falls, Harold
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Birthname | Harold Francis Falls | ||||
born on | 26 November 1909 at 17:30 (= 5:30 PM ) | ||||
Place | Winchester, Indiana, 40n10, 84w59 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American ophthalmologist and geneticist who helped found one of the first genetics clinics in the USA. The Nettleship-Falls syndrome, the most common type of ocular albinism, is named after him and English ophthalmologist Edward Nettleship.
Harold Falls died on 27 May 2006 in Brighton, Michigan, aged 96.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate from Indiana archives.
Categories
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 96)
- Vocation : Medical : Physician (Ophthalmologist)
- Vocation : Science : Biology (Geneticist)
- Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator ("Nettleship-Falls syndrome")