Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz (1896 - 1967) was a pathologist and educator credited with a series of discoveries in the study of thyroid, breast and pancreatic tumors. From 1924 to 1962 she taught surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, becoming a full professor in 1951. Her major achievements include: * In 1935, she and Allen O. Whipple described the insulin secretion of pancreatic tumors. Wikipedia
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