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Barnett Rosenberg  

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  • AN AMERICAN CHEMIST, Barnett Rosenberg was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1984 for “the discovery of cisplatin and the significant role of platinum coordination complexes in the treatment of human cancer. Cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy has proven especially effective against testicular cancer, ovarian cancer and head and neck cancer.” The discovery of cisplatin also won Rosenberg the Harvey prize from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Rosenberg, Barnett]

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