Averill Abraham Liebow

Averill Abraham Liebow (born March 31, 1911 in Stryj , Galicia , † May 1978 in La Jolla , San Diego , California ) was an American pathologist .

He emigrated to the USA as a young boy. There he studied medicine at Yale University ( New Haven (Connecticut) ) and worked primarily in the field of pulmonary pathology. In 1944, in collaboration with the pathologist Charles B. Carrington , he published the first histological classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia . During World War II he was also a lieutenant in the United States Army and researched the effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

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SURNAME	Liebow, Averill Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stryj , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH	May 1978
Place of death	La Jolla , San Diego , California , USA