surgery—including arteries, stomach, kidneys and heart. These previsions became reality in the second half of the 20th century. In 1911, Flexner was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. From 1910 to 1914 he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institution. Marriage and family Simon Flexner married Helen Thomas (later professor of English) and had a family. His son James Thomas Flexner became a prolific writer; one of his works was an extensive biography of George Washington. Dr. Flexner died in May 1946 in New York City, from a myocardial infarction (heart attack). He was 83 years old. His papers are currently housed at the American Philosophical Society and the Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine. See also Abraham Flexner (1866–1959), American educator Charles Flexner (born 1956), American physician, clinical pharmaceutical scientist, academic, author and researcher James Thomas Flexner (1908–2003), American historian and biographer References External links "Simon Flexner", American Philosophical Society Rockefeller Foundation people 1863 births 1946 deaths Physicians from Louisville, Kentucky Rockefeller University people Presidents of Rockefeller University Foreign Members of the Royal Society American people of Czech-Jewish descent American people of German-Jewish descent Jewish physicians Jewish American scientists Trustees of charities