Edgar Van Nuys Allen

(1900-1961) born in Cozad, Dawson County. Physician, educator, cardiovascular expert, co-recipient of 1960 Albert Lasker Award for confirming laboratory studies with dicumerol and publishing in 1941 a report on the administration of this anti-coagulant to human beings. Consult Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Vol 75 (1962) 13-16 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, December 11, 1960, p. 10.

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