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Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kanner practiced as a physician in Germany and South Dakota. In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who disp…
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science · Austrian-American physician and psychiatrist · psychiatrist · child psychiatrist · scientist · physician · also Leo Kanner, Chaskel Lieb Kanner, Kanner
Born 13 June 1894 · Died 3 April 1981 · Q93592
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s Larry King Live. Roe was with Tammy Faye at the moment of her death. Codeine...bourbon... Who: Tallulah Bankhead, an American actress of the stage and screen, and a reputed libertine. Note: Her response when asked if she wanted anything. You know. Bill and I have working on Hanna-Barbera studios since many years ago. We
2026· 3 entries
“s Larry King Live. Roe was with Tammy Faye at the moment of her death. Codeine...bourbon... Who: Tallulah Bankhead, an American actress of the stage and screen, and a reputed libertine. Note: Her response when asked if she wanted anything. You know. Bill and I have working on Hanna-Barbera studios since many years ago. We”
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“it would be best to get these interferences over with, the sooner to be able to return to the still much desired aloneness”
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,306 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
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1981· 2 entries
Kanner died of heart failure in Sykesville, Maryland
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Died 1981-04-03.
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1974· 1 entry
Won Thomas William Salmon Medal (1974).
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1967· 1 entry
Citation from the National Society for Autistic Children in 1969
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1960· 1 entry
Gutheil Memorial Medal by the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy in 1962
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1949· 1 entry
Kanner published another notable study, "Problems of Nosology and Psychodynamics of Early Infantile Autism*
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1943· 3 entries
Kanner first described the syndrome of early infantile autism
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"Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact", published in 1943
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Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness
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1938· 1 entry
Kanner observed eleven of his patients and chronicled the lives and behavioral characteristics of the children in his seminal paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact", published in 1943
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1937· 1 entry
Richard was relatively healthy and developed in an ordinary fashion, but his mother noted that in comparing Richard to her younger child, the elder child failed to show any "physiognomic or postural sign of preparedness"
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1935· 1 entry
The first edition of his textbook, Child Psychiatry was published
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1933· 3 entries
Barbara came to the clinic at eight years of age
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Donald Triplett was first seen in October, 1938 when he was five years old
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Meyer promoted Kanner to associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
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1930· 1 entry
With monetary support from the Macy and Rockefeller Foundations, Meyer and Edward A
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1928· 1 entry
After attracting the attention of Adolf Meyer who was the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Director of the psychiatric clinic
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1924· 1 entry
Worked at the state hospital in Yankton, South Dakota, where he started his pediatric and psychiatric studies
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1919· 1 entry
And enrolled at the University of Berlin medical school
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1913· 1 entry
Kanner graduated from the Sophien-Gymnasium, a public state high school in Berlin, where he excelled in the sciences
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1906· 1 entry
Kanner was sent to Berlin to live with his uncle
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1894· 2 entries
To Abraham Kanner and Clara Reisfeld Kanner
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Born 1894-06-13.
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