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Sommer And Behels
Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer". Notable people with this name include: A–L * Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic * Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor * António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist * Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor * Christine Sommer (born 1970), Austrian actress * Clifford C. Sommer (1908-1993), American businessman and politician * Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper * Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), key figure in the Restoration Movement * Édouard Sommer (born 1822), French scholar * Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress * Erik Sommer (born 1978), artist * Evrim Sommer (born 1971), German politician (The Left) * Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist * Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German Nazi officer accused of war crimes * Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.World Development Report 1993. World Bank, 1993. Biography Early life and education Sommer was born on October 2, 1942 in New York City. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York and graduated summa cum laude in 1963. At Union College, Sommer received a Bachelor of Science in biology, with a minor in history. Sommer attended Harvard Medical School and obtained his MD in 1967. He served as a medical intern and resident at Harvard University's Beth Israel De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
