Horace Hodes
(1907-1989)
American pediatrician and researcher
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Horace Louis Hodes (December 21, 1907 – April 24, 1989) was an American pediatrician and infectious disease researcher. He was the first to isolate rotavirus, he demonstrated that the Japanese encephalitis virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, and he discovered that vitamin D increased intestinal absorption of calcium. He spent his early career at Johns Hopkins Hospital and later became the chief of pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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21 December 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
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24 April 1989 (aged 81) North Shore University Hospital, New York, US
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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