Leonell C. Strong ((1894-01-19)19 January 1894 – (1982-08-31)31 August 1982) was a cancer research scientist and amateur cryptographer.
In 1947 he published a translation of two pages of the Voynich Manuscript in which he claimed that the author was Anthony Askham (who, in fact lived about a century after the VM has since been proved to have been created).
In 1978 he received the William B. Coley Award.
External links
- A selection of his letters
- His personal papers
- Biography
- Another biography
- Strong, L C (1976). "A Baconian in cancer research: autobiographical essay". Cancer Res Cancer research. 36 (10): 3534–53. ISSN 0008-5472. OCLC 115888750.