George Washington Corner, 12 December 1889 - 28 September 1981

Abstract

George Washington Corner III died at the age of 91 on 28 September 1981. For many years he was both the dominant and the most respected figure in the anatomical world of America. He was also an inspiration to anatomists the world over in a period when the subject, because of its tardiness in responding to the challenge of the experimental method, had all but become the Cinderella of the medical sciences. Corner was a man of wide and scholarly interests, a distinguished pioneer in the experimental study of the endocrine control of the reproductive cycle, and a notable medical historian.