1930's Medicine and Health | "Surgery Used on the Soul-Sick; Relief of Obsessions is Reported"

Newspaper article

By: William L. Laurence

Date: June 7, 1937

Source: Laurence, William L. "Surgery Used on the Soul-Sick; Relief of Obsessions is Reported." The New York Times, June 6, 1938.

About the Author: William Laurence (1888–1977), science reporter, was born Leid Siew in the village of Salantai, Lithuania. He wrote about many important scientific breakthroughs in the 1930s and 1940s, one of which demonstrated his rare gift for reducing modern scientific theory to easily comprehended terms. Largely on the strength of that story, The New York Times hired him as its full-time science reporter in 1930. Later he became science editor, a position he held until his retirement in 1964. Known also as "Atomic Bill," Laurence wrote several books on atomic energy.

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