Leonard Hayflick
| Leonard Hayflick | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 20, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Known for | Discovering the Hayflick limit |
 Childhood in Pennsylvania, Leonard Hayflick interview, 1:43, 1st of 167 parts, Web of Stories. |
Leonard Hayflick (born 20 May 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America and was a founding member of the council of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The recipient of several research prizes and awards, including the 1991 Sandoz Prize for Gerontological Research, he has studied the aging process for more than thirty years. He is known for discovering that human cells divide for a limited number of times in vitro (refuting the contention by Alexis Carrel that normal body cells are immortal). This is known as the Hayflick limit.
Hayflick is the author of the book, “How and Why We Age”, published in August 1994 by Ballantine Books, NYC and available in 1996 as a paperback. This book has been translated into nine languages and is published in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Poland, Russia, and Spain. It was a selection of The Book of the Month Club and has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.
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