James Mourilyan Tanner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This biography of a living person does not cite any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This was added by an automated process. If this tag was placed in error, it may be removed. If this tag was placed correctly, the "bot=yes" may be removed to hide this message. (June 2009) Find sources: (James Mourilyan Tanner – news, books, scholar)

James Mourilyan Tanner (born 1 August 1920) is a British pediatrician. He was born in Camberley, Surrey, UK.

He is best known for his invention of the Tanner stages, scales for stages of sexual development in puberty. He is a professor emeritus of the Institute of Child Health at the University of London.

[edit] Books

• Growth (Life Science Library) (1965), by James M. Tanner and Gordon Rattray Taylor

Persondata
NAME	Tanner, James Mourilyan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH	1 August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Camberley, Surrey, UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH