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Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951

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Personal name headingLacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951
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Variant(s)Pleasant, Henrietta, 1920-1951
Birth date1920-08-01
Death date1951-10-04
Found inSkloot, Rebecca. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, c2009: ECIP t.p. (Henrietta Lacks)
Wikipedia, Aug. 13, 2009 (Henrietta Lacks; b. Aug. 18?, 1920, Roanoke, Va.; d. Oct. 4, 1951; involuntary donor of cells from her cancerous tumor)
Wikipedia, July 28, 2017 Henrietta Lacks article (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920--October 4, 1951), an African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research)