Guinter Kahn

(1934- ) lived in Omaha. Physician, dermatologist, researcher, credited as co-discoverer in 1971 that the drug minoxidil could treat baldness, a condition suffered by some 30 percent of the male population; became in 1988 first product known as Rogaine proven to regrow hair approved by the Federal Drug Administration; granted a U.S. patent in 1986 as co-inventor of the first effective drug to treat male pattern baldness. Consult Miami /FL/ Herald Tropic Magazine, October 30, 1988, pp. 8-15 and Omaha World Herald, September 27, 1993, pp. 25-26.

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