Murray Shear was an American scientist who worked on cancer research and was a pioneer in the field of Chemotherapy.
10 Facts About Murray Shear
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Murray Jacob Shear was born on November 7,1899, in Brooklyn, NY.
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Murray Shear was a member of the Columbia faculty from 1923 to 1925.
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The head of the laboratory, Joseph Schereschewsky, recruited Murray Shear to be a biochemist.
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Murray Shear investigated how the molecular structure of chemicals relates to cancer growth.
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Murray Shear described the earliest accounts of cancer chemotherapy in a series of articles in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 1944.
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In 1947, Murray Shear became chief biochemist and chairman of the Chemotherapy Section.
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Murray Shear was appointed chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology in 1951, serving until 1964.
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Murray Shear was among the first scientists who detected the relationship of air pollution to cancer.
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Murray Shear died of Parkinson's disease at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda on September 17,1983.