| LC control no. | no2007091273 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Barres, Ben, 1954-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Barres, Barbara |
| See also | Employer: Stanford University |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1954-09-13 |
| Death date | 2017-12-27 |
| Place of birth | West Orange (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Palo Alto (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Education, Higher Neuroglia Women in science |
| Affiliation | Stanford University Harvard Medical School Dartmouth Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Profession or occupation | Neuroscientists College teachers Authors |
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| Found in | The autobiography of a transgender scientist, 2018: back flap (Ben Barres (1954-2017) was professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at Stanford University and one of the world's leading researchers on the role of the brain cells known as glia); page 117 (Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Stanford University from 1993 to 2016. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB (1976); Dartmouth Medical School, MD (1979); Harvard Medical School, PhD (1990).) Abstracts of papers presented at the 2006 meeting on glia in health & disease, 2006: t.p. (Ben Barres) Purifying and culturing neural cells, 2014: ECIP t.p. (Ben A. Barres, Stanford University School of Medicine) data view (b. 9/13/54) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 2, 2018 (in obituary published Dec. 29, 2017: Ben Barres; b. Barbara Barres, Sept. 13, 1954, West Orange, N.J.; d. Wednesday [Dec. 27, 2017], Palo Alto, Calif., aged 63; neuroscientist who did groundbreaking work on brain cells known as glia and their possible relation to diseases like Parkinson's, and who was an outspoken advocate of equal opportunity for women in the sciences; Dr. Barres was transgender, having transitioned from female to male in 1997) |
| Associated language | eng |
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