Thesis: La micro-électrophorèse sur papier dans la tuberculose pulmonaire : étude statistique et critique à propos de 922 examens chez 327 malades. Thesis (D.M.)–Université d’Alger, 1956.
Location: HC0011 Series 1:1 (Algeria, Algiers) Box 12 : Université d'Alger (1953-1956)
Georges Akoun was born on February 17, 1927 in Algiers. He studied respiratory diseases in Paris and received his Doctorat en Médecine from the Université d’Alger in 1966.
Akoun was a professor at the Université de Paris VI, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Pneumology department. He was particularly interested in respiratory diseases (including interstitial pneumonitis of immunologic origin). He was appointed the chief of the Paris hospitals pulmonary division in 1979.
Akoun was a member of the American College of Chest Physicians (1986). He has written a number of articles and books on respiratory diseases and edited “Les entretiens de Tenon” and “Collège de médecine des hôpitaux de Paris: pathologie interne.”
Sources:
“AKOUN Georges.” Who’s Who in Science in Europe. A biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture and medicine. 7th ed. Volume 2: EC Countries A to F. Harlow, England: Longman Group, 1991.
Biographies of selected authors from the New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses written by Kristin W. Andrews, B.A., M.S.L.S.