John Hans Menkes and His Kinky Hair Syndrome

John Hans Menkes was a pediatric neurologist, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928. Following the German annexation of Austria, Menkes immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 at the age of 11 years. He completed high school in California and subsequently earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in organic chemistry at the University of Southern California. Although he held a passion for writing and journalism, Menkes ultimately decided to follow the family tradition of studying medicine. Following a pediatric neurology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, Menkes went to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he spent the rest of his life advancing the field of pediatric neurology and having an impact on the fields of genetics and dermatology.

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