Reuben L. Kahn of the University of Michigan medical school faculty, was given a place on the 1933 honor list of the Magazine of Modern Medicine.
Dr. Kahn was born in Lithuania in 1887. Graduating from Valparaiso, Yale and New York Universities, he served from 1920 to 1928 as immunologist with the Michigan Department of Health and while in Lansing developed his precipitation test for social diseases which shortly attracted world-wide attention because of its high percentage of accurate determinations, its simplicity and speed. He was recently awarded the annual $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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