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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

SACHER, George A. (1917 – 1981)

1917 – 1981

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1970

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George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.

SACHER, George A. (1917 – 1981) FINCH, Caleb Ellicott (1939 – )
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)

"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…