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Edward W. Hawthorne

1921–1986

United States

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Edward William Hawthorne (November 30, 1921 – October 7, 1986) was an American cardiologist and academic administrator. After getting his degrees at Howard University and University of Illinois Chicago, he returned to Howard as part of the faculty and was head of their physiology and biophysics departments and their Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Hawthorne was a 1972 member of the National Academy of Medicine.

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