John Menkes

John Hans Menkes was an Austrian-American pediatric neurologist and author of fictional novels and plays. He identified two inherited diseases: maple syrup urine disease which is a defect in amino acid metabolism, and a defect in copper transport which bears his name. In addition to a career in academic medicine, he pursued a career in writing, publishing novels and plays. ^{John Menkes, Austrian-American pediatric and writer (d. 2008)}

20 December 1928

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Dir En Grey • Edwin Abbott Abbott • Geremi • Marta Russell • Ray Martin (television presenter) • Rik Van Looy • Robert J. Van de Graaff

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