Richard A. Finkelstein

Richard Alan Finkelstein (born March 5, 1930 in New York City ) is an American microbiologist who researched, among other things, the cholera toxin.

Finkelstein studied at the University of Oklahoma (Bachelor's degree in 1950) and the University of Texas , where he received his master's degree in 1952 and his doctorate in bacteriology in 1955. He was then an instructor and from 1958 to 1967 head of the bioassay department at the Walter Reed Research Institute of the US Army. From 1964 to 1967 he conducted research on cholera in Thailand and also lectured at the University of Bangkok . From 1967 he was Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Texas (Health Science Center) in Dallas, from 1974 with a full professorship. He was also a member of the National Institutes of Health's Cholera Advisory Board . Since 1979 he has been a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia , where he retired in 2000.

In addition to cholera, he also dealt with other intestinal diseases and gonorrhea and (in publications with his wife Mary Boesman-Finkelstein) with the antimicrobial effects of milk.

In 1976 he received the Robert Koch Prize .

He has been married to Mary Boesman-Finkelstein, who is also a biologist, since 1976.

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• Pamela Kalte u. a. (Editor) American Men and Women of Science , 22nd Edition, Thomson Gale 2005