Solomon Berson

Solomon " Sol " Aaron Berson ( born April 22, 1918 in New York; † April 11, 1972 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American pioneer of nuclear medicine.

Together with the later Nobel laureate Rosalyn Yalow he developed the method of radioimmunoassay. He also made ​​important research on the use of radio-isotopes as indicators or tracers in medicine.

Berson was the son of a Russian immigrant who owned a fur dyeing. He had two siblings. After his college graduation, he decided in 1934 to study medicine, but was initially rejected by all universities. The waiting period he bridged with chemical and anatomical studies at New York University. In 1941, he was finally accepted at the NY University Medical School, where he became in 1945 the medical doctor degree. In 1942 he married Miriam Gitteson. After completing his education, he completed his military service until 1948, after which he was at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital operates. In 1950 he became assistant to the senior nuclear physician Rosalyn Yalow, with whom he worked until his death in 1972. In 1954 he became head of the outsourced service radioisotopes to introduce the then newly developed radio-iodine therapy.

Yalow and Berson published numerous fundamental work on the radioiodine therapy and other medical applications of radionuclides (see nuclear medicine). In 1953, they managed to elucidate the metabolism of serum albumin by labeling with radioactive iodine. In 1956, she studied the antibody binding of insulin in diabetics, and came here to the discovery that their radioactive labeling technique could also measure extremely low concentrations in the blood reliably. They showed that many older diabetic patients is not too low, but on the contrary above normal high insulin concentrations in the blood had (now known as type II diabetes). In 1959 they published their measurement method in final form. This was the birth of the modern common radioimmunoassay. Yalow and Berson they turned over the coming decades on numerous open questions in endocrinology. They did not patent the process.

Berson 1968 became a full professor and dean of the medical faculty ( Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of NY). Like his colleague, he received numerous academic recognitions and awards, including the Gairdner Foundation International Award, one (1971). He died in 1972 during a convention in Atlantic City. The Nobel Prize was Rosalyn Yalow in 1977, five years after Berson's death, awarded.

Swell

  • J. E. Rall: Solomon A. Berson. In: Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences 1990, 59:54-71. ISBN 0-309-04198-8. online
  • Americans
  • Nuclear medicine
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • University teachers ( City University of New York)
  • Support of the Canada Gairdner International Award
  • Born in 1918
  • Died in 1972
  • Man
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