Alexander Gordon Bearn

Alexander Gordon Bearn (born March 29, 1923, Cheam, Surrey, Eng.—died May 15, 2009, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) was a British-born American physician and geneticist who discovered the hereditary nature of Wilson disease and established the basis for diagnostic tests and novel forms of treatment for the disease. Bearn’s work, which provided an important model for the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of other genetic diseases, served to bridge the gap between genetics and medicine that existed in...