English Name
Sophie Spitz
Original Name
Sophie Spitz
Other Name
Sophie Spitz Allen
Date, Country, and City of Birth
February 4, 1910, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Date City of Death
August 11, 1956, New York City, New York, USA
History of Life
Sophie Spitz was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 4, 1910, from Florence Levy (daughter of Jewish immigrants from Germany) and from Joe Spitz, the son of Jewish immigrants from Austria. Joe moved the Spitz family, including Sophie’s younger twin brothers (Sam and LJ) to Sheffield, Alabama, and to Wichita Falls, Texas, to follow the booms of nitrite and oil production, however, moving back to Nashville when Sophie was 14. Even at an early age, Sophie was an avid learner, working at the local library to bring books home. Sophie’s first contact with pathology came from her uncle Dr. Herman Spitz, who had a private clinical pathology laboratory, where Sophie worked as a technician during her high school and college years; Herman Spitz was also...
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Ash, J. E. (1958). In memoriam: Sophie Spitz; an appreciation; 1910–1956. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 30, 553–554.
Bader, E., & Shipman, A. R. (2015). The women behind the names: Dermatology eponyms named after women. International Journal of Women’s dermatology, 1, 157–160.
Shapiro, P. E. (1992). Who was Sophie Spitz? The woman behind the eponym. American Journal of Dermatopathology, 14, 442–446.
Spatz, A., & Barnhill, R. L. (1999). The Spitz tumor 50 years later: Revisiting a landmark contribution and unresolved controversy. Journal of the American Academy Dermatology, 40(2 Pt 1), 223–228.
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Alessandrini, L., Canzonieri, V. (2016). Spitz, Sophie (1910–1956). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4039-1
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