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An interview with Leonard Hayflick
with Leonard Hayflick on Sep 14, 1994
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with Leonard Hayflick on Sep 14, 1994
Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D. is Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America and was a founding member of the council of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The recipient of several research prizes and awards, including the 1991 Sandoz Prize for Gerontological Research, he has studied the aging process for more than thirty years. He is best known for discovering that human cells divide for a limited number of times in vitro. This is known as the Hayflick limit.
Dr. Hayflick is the author of the popular book, “How and Why We Age”. This book has been translated into nine languages and is published in Japan, Brazil, Russia, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Israel and Hungary. It was a selection of The Book-of-the-Month Club and has sold over 50,000 copies world-wide.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hayflick
