About David Morris Kern
Lived 1909 – 2013 (aged 103–104). David Morris Kern was an American pharmacist and inventor.
David Morris Kern (August 4, 1909 – May 3, 2013) was an American pharmacist and businessman. Kern developed and co-invented Orajel, a topical medication applied to relieve pain from toothaches and mouth sores.
Kern was born in 1909 in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Kern and his wife moved to the Phoenix Metropolitan Area during the 1990s.
Kern died in a nursing facility in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on May 3, 2013, at the age of 103. His wife, Rose Ziedenweber Kern, whom he had been married to for sixty-five years, died in 2001.
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David Morris Kern was born in 1909 in Manhattan.
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David Morris Kern died on 3 May 2013 in Paradise Valley.
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David Morris Kern was a pharmacist and inventor.
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