1. Saul Hertz was born on April 20,1905, to father Aaron Daniel Hertz and mother Bertha Hertz in Cleveland, Ohio.
21 Facts About Saul Hertz
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Saul Hertz's parents were Jewish immigrants from what is currently Golub-Dobrzyn in Poland.
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The Saul Hertz's raised their seven sons according to Orthodox traditions.
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Saul Hertz attended public school and went on to graduate from the University of Michigan with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1924.
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Saul Hertz received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1929, at a time when there were strict quotas for outsiders.
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Saul Hertz completed his internship and residency at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital, which had been established to serve Cleveland's East side Jewish population.
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Saul Hertz joined the Thyroid Clinic and Metabolism Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1931.
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In 1937, Saul Hertz began a collaboration with the physicist Arthur Roberts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In 1943, Saul Hertz joined the United States Navy Medical Corps.
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Saul Hertz served as an adjunct to the Manhattan Project, working in an aspect of the project related to biology and medicine for furthering medical uses of atomic energy.
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Chapman, who took over Saul Hertz's established cases during the war, teamed up with Evans to treat 22 new cases of their own.
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Saul Hertz established the Radioactive Isotope Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 1946, with Samuel Seidlin of New York City as the associate director.
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Saul Hertz worked with the government to centralize an agency to handle the distribution of radioactive isotopes for use by private enterprises working on approved projects.
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Saul Hertz advocated for the Atomic Energy Commission to produce iodine-131 in the government's atomic piles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which lowered the cost and increased radioiodine's distribution.
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Saul Hertz made extensive studies of radioactive iodine in the treatment of thyroid cancer as well as in the production of total thyroidectomy in the treatment of certain cases of heart disease.
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In 1949, Saul Hertz established the first nuclear medicine department at the Massachusetts Women's Hospital where he expanded his research to use radionuclides to diagnose and treat other forms of cancer.
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Saul Hertz studied the application of radioactive phosphorus and the influences of hormones on cancer as displayed by isotope studies.
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Saul Hertz's research was seminal in the emergence of the field of nuclear medicine.
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Saul Hertz's research continued with his appointments as instructor at Harvard Medical School from 1946 to 1950 and as an attachment to the Nuclear Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1950.
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Saul Hertz died on July 28,1950, at age 45 of a heart attack.
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Barbara Saul Hertz co-authored with Kristin Schuller a 2010 publication in the journal Endocrine Practice on her father's major contributions to human health.