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Henry Clay Frick II
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Henry Clay Frick II

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Henry Clay Frick II (October 18, 1919 – February 9, 2007) was an American physician and professor of medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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He was born on October 18, 1919, in New York City the son of Childs Frick (1883–1965), the paleontologist, and grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).

He attended St. Paul's School. In 1942 he graduated from Princeton University and then from the medical school in 1944 at Columbia. After World War II he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Frick practiced medicine in New York, and later became a professor of clinical obstetrics at Columbia and an oncologist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. During the 1960s he voluntarily served two tours of duty in a field hospital during the Vietnam War.

Frick was a trustee and board president of New York's Frick Collection and chairman of his aunt's Helen Clay Frick Foundation. In this later capacity he directed the restoration, according to his aunt's wishes, of the Frick family's Pittsburgh estate, Clayton. He also was a trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Museum of Natural History.

He died at age 87 on February 9, 2007, at his Alpine, New Jersey home.

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