Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851

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Name (Hebrew)
מורטון, סמואל ג'ורג', 1799-1851
Name (Latin)
Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Other forms of name
Morton, S. Georgius (Samuel Georgius), 1799-1851
Date of birth
1799-01-26
Date of death
1851-05-15
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 64243824
Wikidata: Q920542
Library of congress: n 84806490
Sources of Information
  • LCCN 5-22470: Meigs, C.D. A memoir of Samuel George Morton, 1851(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851)
  • LC data base, 11-26-84(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: Samuel George Morton)
  • LCCN 39-10146: His Tentamen inaugurale de corporis dolore, 1823(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: S. Georgius Morton, M.D.)
  • Wikipedia, June 14, 2010(Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was an American physician and natural scientist; reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife; b. in Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820; after earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland, he began practice at Philadelphia in 1824; from 1839 to 1843, he was the professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania; his scholarship would sire the scientific racism that fed the defense of slavery in the US)