Tron, Giorgio (1884-1963)

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Tron, Giorgio (1884-1963)

Italian physician who studied parapsychology. Tron was born on September 12, 1884, in Turin, Italy. He studied at the University of Pavia (M.D., 1910; teaching diploma in hygiene, 1924). He was staff doctor at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Milan (1915-26), hygiene officer at Milan (1927-38), and director of the Instituto Sieroterapico Italiano, Naples (1940-53). Tron was a member of the Società Italiana di Parapsicologia and served as the society's secretary (1955-59).

In addition to his writings on medical subjects, Tron contributed articles to the Bulletin of the Società Italiana di Parapsicologia. He also wrote a chapter on unorthodox healing in the book Studia Parapsychologica (1956) and on physical mediumistic phenomena in Nuovi Problemi di Metapsichica (1953). He died February 5, 1963, in Rome.

Sources:

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

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