Samuel Seidlin
Samuel M. Seidlin was Russian-born American endocrinologist who pioneered the field of by using radioiodine for diagnosis and therapy of thyroid cancer during the early 1940s.Samuel Seidlin was born in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, to Martin S Seidlin and Sima Seidlin. He was brought to New York City as a child. He earned his MD in 1923 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and served as an intern and junior staff member at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.Career
Seidlin established the Medical Physics Research Laboratory at Montefiore Hospital and its Endocrine Clinic in 1943.
