Deaths

Dr. Howard B. Andervont, 83, virologist and cancer researcher who helped establish the National Cancer Institute in the 1930s, in Sarasota, Florida, 11 March 1981.

Dr. Gould Arthur Andrews, 62, pioneer in the use of nuclear medicine, who introduced the use of radioisotopes in cancer therapy, in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1 July 1980.

Dr. James Z. Appel, 74, surgeon and general practitioner who served as president of the American Medical Association from 1965 to 1966 and helped coordinate the structuring of Medicare, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 31 August 1981.

Dr. Silvano Arieti, 67, Italian-born psychoanalyst, author, and teacher who was a specialist in schizophrenia; winner of a National Book Award in 1975 for his book Interpretation of Schizophrenia; he was the editor in chief of the reference text American Handbook of Psychiatry, in New York City, 7 August 1981.

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