Max Kornfeld
Max Kornfeld, born in St. Louis in 1903, was at twenty years of age the youngest member of the Washington University School of Dentistry class of 1924. He was given a special license by the Missouri Dental Board to practice dentistry until he reached the legal age.
From 1925 to 1934 Kornfeld was a member of the faculty of his alma mater, teaching metallurgy and comparative dental anatomy. From 1936 to 1946 he was professor of dental prosthetics and head of the department of fixed partial dentures at the St. Louis University School of Dentistry. Kornfeld was author of two editions of the dental textbook Mouth Rehabilitation.
Kornfeld was a fellow of both the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists. He served as president of the St. Louis Dental Society in 1951 and of the Missouri Dental Association in 1957. Kornfeld was honored by the Urban League of St. Louis in 1957 for his leadership while president of the St. Louis Dental Society in integrating its membership. The Washington University School of Dental Medicine Alumni Association recognized Kornfeld as its 1989 Distinguished Alumnus.