Price, E(lias) Alan (1918-)

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Price, E(lias) Alan (1918-)

Physician and radiologist concerned with parapsychology. Price was born on April 15, 1918, in Dolhinow, Poland. He moved to South Africa and studied at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (M.B., Ch.B).

Price served in the Israeli Army from 1948 to 1949, during the formation of the state of Israel. He then returned to South Africa as a resident house physician from 1949 to 1951 and then went to England to study at London University College Hospital (D.M.R.D. diagnostic radiology, 1953). Price became a consulting radiologist (1954-58) at Johannesburg General Hospital, South Africa. He reentered private practice in Johannesburg in 1958.

Price was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London and a founder and leader in 1955 of the South African Society for Psychical Research (vice president, 1956-57; president, 1958; and executive member from 1959).

Sources:

Price, E. Alan, Marius Valkhoff, and J. H. Van Der Merwe. Parapsychology and Modern Science. South African Society for Psychical Research, 1958.

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