Louis B. Flexner

Awards and Distinctions election to the National Academy of Sciences (1964) election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences election to the American Philosophical Society a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists a member of the American Association of Anatomists (secretary-treasurer from 1956 to 1964 The Democratic National Committee named him to a newly created Advisory Council on Technology in 1959 served on scientific boards of the U.S. Public Health Service, United Cerebral Palsy Association, National Council to Combat Blindness, National Research Council, National Paraplegic Society, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis the Weinstein Award in 1957 In 1974 he was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) by the University of Pennsylvania UPenn tribute established the Louis B. Flexner Lectureship

Career and life Flexner graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. degree in 1923 and from Johns Hopkins University with a M.D. degree in 1927.