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Mortimer M. Elkind
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- AN AMERICAN BIOPHYSICIST and radiobiologist, Elkind M. Mortimer (1922–2000) was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1989 for “describing the repair of sublethal injury in irradiated mammalian cells and for defining the implications of the reparative process.” Mortimer Murray Elkind was born on October 25, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Samuel W. Elkind and Yetta (née Lubarsky). His father, a musician, was born in Russia, and his mother was born in England of Russian parents. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Elkind, Mortimer M.]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Mortimer_M._Elkind
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