Henrietta Lacks
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 73 years ago |
Date of birth | August 1,1920 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Roanoke |
Virginia | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 4,1951 |
Died | The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Baltimore | |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Spouse | David Lacks |
Children | David Lacks, Jr. |
Deborah Lacks | |
Elsie Lacks | |
Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman | |
Lawrence Lacks | |
Siblings | Lawrence Pleasant |
Gladys Pleasant Lacks | |
Henry Pleasant | |
John Randall II | |
Charles Pleasant | |
Lillian Pleasant | |
Parents | Eliza Lacks Pleasant |
John Randall Pleasant | |
Height | 150 (cm) |
Job | Housewife |
Awards | Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Goodreads Author |
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction | |
Place of burial | Lacks Family Cemetary, Clover, Virginia, United States |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 601791 |
Henrietta Lacks Life story
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.