Mortimer M. Elkind

Mortimer M. Elkind (born October 25, 1922 in Brooklyn , New York , † December 10, 2000 ) was an American physicist and radiation biologist.

Mortimer Elkind studied at Cooper Union with the Bachelor Accounts 1943 and at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with the Master Accounts in Mechanical Engineering in 1949 after the Second World War in the US Navy had served. He then studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1951 and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1953. He turned to radiation biology and cancer research during his time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Donner Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1953 to 1969 he was at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda , where he used the method of Theodore Puck and Philip Marcus for the cultivation of mammalian cells in order to undertake fundamental studies on the effects of radiation (especially X-rays) in cells. In 1959 he published a paper on this in Nature . From 1969 to 1973 he continued his work at Brookhaven National Laboratory , from 1971 to 1973 he was a visiting scientist at the Experimental Radiopathology Unit at Hammersmith Hospital in London . During this time he introduced concepts for graduated radiation damage in cells (sublethal damage, potentially lethal damage) and investigated the effect of radiation on DNA. From 1973 to 1981 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago (until 1982) and studied neoplastic changes in mammalian cells due to radiation. From 1981 to 1989 he held the Chair of Radiology and Radiation Biology at Colorado State University , where he was a University Distinguished Professor .

In 1996 Elkind and H. Rodney Withers received the Enrico Fermi Prize of the DOE and in 1989 the Kettering Prize . He also received the X-ray plaque and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize .

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SURNAME	Elkind, Mortimer M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist and radiation biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 2000