Dr. Abraham Flexner, the son of immigrant Jewish parents from Bohemia who revolutionized medical education in the United States some 50 years ago, and who founded the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1930, died yesterday in his home here. He was 92.
His 1910 report, which condemned existing medical education facilities, was followed by a fund-raising career in which he persuaded the Rockefeller family to give $50, 000, 000 between 1917 and 1927 to help make American medical education among the best in the world. He was instrumental in persuading the late Albert Einstein to leave Germany to join the Institute for Advanced Study.
In 1945, he agreed to head a committee of scientists to sponsor the establishment of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
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