Widukind Lenz - bibliography

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Biography

German medical geneticist, born February 4, 1919, near Munich; died February 1995.

Bibliography

  • W. Lenz
    Medical genetics. Translated by Elisabeth F. Lanzl.
    University of Chicago Press. 1963.
  • W. G. McBride:
    Thalidomide and congenital abnormalities. The Lancet, 1961, 2: 1358.
  • W. von Lenz, K. Knapp:
    Die thalidomid-embryopathie.
    Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1962, 87(24): 1232-1242.
  • H. Taussig:
    A study of the German outbreak of phocomelia.
    Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1962, 180: 1106-1114.
  • W. Lenz:
    Chemicals and malformations in man.
    In: Second International Conference on Congenital Malformations. (Ed: M. Fishbein) International Medical Congress, New York, 1964, 263-276.
  • C. S. Delahunt, L. J. Lassen:
    Thalidomide syndrome in monkeys.
    Science, 1964, 146: 1300-1301.
  • W. Lenz:
    Malformations caused by drugs in pregnancy.
    American Journal of Diseases of Children, Chicago, 1966, 112: 99-106.
  • W. J. Curran:
    The thalidomide tragedy in Germany: The end of a historic medicolegal trial.
    New England Journal of Medicine, 1971, 284: 481-482.
  • Benno Müller-Hill (1933-):
    Murderous science : elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Germany, 1933-1945. Afterword by James D. Watson ; translated by George R. Fraser.
    Plainview, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1998.
    German title: Tödliche Wissenschaft.

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