Lester W. Sontag Papers 1933-1969

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Lester W. Sontag Papers 1933-1969

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Sontag, L. W. (Lester Warren), 1901-

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Lester W. Sontag, Antioch College's (Yellow Springs, Ohio) physician, was appointed as the first Director for the Fels Longitudinal Study in 1929. The first participants were enrolled prenatally by their parents, and the first examinations began in 1930. Lester Sontag remained active in the study, developing and nurturing it until his retirement in 1970. In 1940s, Lester Sontag, M.D., was the first scientist who discovered that the mother's heartbeat affects the heartbea...