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GWU Prodigy, Doctor Habeeb Bacchus Dies

Habeeb Bacchus, an academic prodigy who received a doctorate from George Washington University when he was 21 and had a long career as a physician and professor, died April 6 of a heart attack at a hospital near his home in Aptos, Calif. He was 76.

Dr. Bacchus spent the last 36 years of his life in California as a hospital administrator and professor of medicine, but it was his remarkable precocity and diligence that brought him early notice in Washington. He came to the city in 1945 as a 16-year-old freshman at Howard University, newly arrived from his native British Guiana (now Guyana) on the northeastern corner of South America.

He graduated from Howard in two years with a bachelor's ...

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