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Alexander Langmuir
(12 Sep 1910 - 22 Nov 1993)
American epidemiologist.
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Science Quotes by Alexander Langmuir (1 quote)
Shoe leather epidemiology.
[Langmuir stressed that investigators go into the field to collect their own data and directly view the locale of a public health problem. His graduates wore lapel pins of a shoe with a hole in the sole.]
[Langmuir stressed that investigators go into the field to collect their own data and directly view the locale of a public health problem. His graduates wore lapel pins of a shoe with a hole in the sole.]
— Alexander Langmuir
As stated in 'Alexander Langmuir Dies at 83', New York Times (24 Nov 1993), D19.
See also:
- 12 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Langmuir's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
