Herman D. Suit

Herman Day Suit (born February 8, 1929 in Houston , Texas ) is an American medical doctor ( radiology , oncology ).

Herman Suit studied biology at the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree (AB) in 1948 and medicine at Baylor University with an MD in 1952. He completed his residency in radiology (internship, residency) at Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston. In 1954 he went to Oxford , where he was House Surgeon for Radiation Therapy at Churchill Hospital and Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Radiation Biology. There he received his doctorate in radiation biology in 1956 (Dr. phil.) And was a registrar in 1956/57. From 1957 to 1959 he was Senior Assistant Surgeon at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda and from 1959 at the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Center of the University of Texas in Houston (under Gilbert Fletcher ). Initially he was assistant radiotherapist there , from 1962 head of the department of experimental radiation therapy, from 1963 associate radiotherapist and from 1968 professor for radiation therapy and radiotherapist. From 1969 to 1971 he also conducted research at the Manned Spacecraft Center of NASA . In 1970 he became professor of radiation therapy at Harvard Medical School and in 1971 head of the department of radiation therapy (Radiation Medicine) at Massachusetts General Hospital . Most recently there he was Andres Soriano Professor of Radiation Oncology .

He was involved in the introduction of accelerated fractionation in radiation therapy for cancer. In the 1970s, at Harvard, he also worked on proton accelerators for radiation therapy.

Suit is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1997 he received the Kettering Prize .

Web links

• Homepage at the MGH
• Interview at Astro
• Literature by and about Herman D. Suit in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004