Bernard Becker
{{short description|American ophthalmologist}}
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Bernard Becker (August 21, 1920 – August 28, 2013) was an American professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He was born in New York City.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwMgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22becker,+bernard%22+1920+st+louis |title = American Men of Medicine|year = 1961}}
Becker was internationally honored as an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and active in teaching and research. For more than 35 years, he led Washington University's department of ophthalmology.
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In 1978, students, patients, and colleagues raised funds in his honor, which now endow two faculty positions: the Bernard and Janet Becker Professorship (presently held by Dr. Shiming Chen) and the Bernard Becker Professorship (presently held by Dr. Timothy McBride).
Early life and education
After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1944, he joined the United States Army during World War II and served as a military psychiatrist.
Death
Just a week after his 93rd birthday, Dr. Becker died from lung cancer at his home in the Central West End, St. Louis on August 28, 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/obituaries/dr-bernard-becker-dies-at-world-famous-glaucoma-researcher/article_6ba01c54-d4c7-5365-b6f6-d130d28f1e0d.html |title=Dr. Bernard Becker dies at 93; world-famous glaucoma researcher |publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=August 30, 2013}}
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External links
- [http://magazine.wustl.edu/Spring02/AlumniActivities.html Washington University in St. Louis Alumni Magazine, 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323082017/http://magazine.wustl.edu/Spring02/AlumniActivities.html |date=March 23, 2007 }}
- [https://publichealth.wustl.edu/scholars/ross-c-brownson/]
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Category:American medical academics
Category:American ophthalmologists
Category:Deaths from lung cancer in Missouri
Category:United States Army Medical Corps officers
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
Category: military psychiatrists
Category:Washington University School of Medicine faculty
Category:Harvard Medical School alumni
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