James Mourilyan Tanner

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

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.

Books

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

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