Roger Irving Lee
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American physician, 1881-1964.
Biography of Roger Irving Lee
Roger Irving Lee worked with Paul Dudley White in the medical service at Massachusetts General Hospital before World War I. Together they developed a technique for measuring blood coagulation, which is still commonly used, called the Lee and White method. Lee also first demonstrated that persons with AB blood group can be universal recipients.
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