Abstract

Historical vignette

Dr. Saul Hertz Discovers the Medical Uses of Radioiodine (RAI)

Barbara Hertz*

Published: 13 September, 2018 | Volume 2 - Issue 3 | Pages: 053-054

Primary sources document Dr. Saul Hertz (1905 - 1950) as conceiving and developing radioiodine (RAI) as a diagnostic tool and as a therapy for thyroid diseases. Dr. Hertz was the first and foremost person to develop the experimental data on RAI and apply it to the clinical setting.

Saul Hertz was born on April 20,1905 to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio. He received his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1925 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1929, at a time of quotas for outsiders, he fulfilled his internship and residency at Cleveland’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.

In 1931, he came back to Boston to join the newly formed Thyroid Unit at The Massachusetts General Hospital serving as the Chief from 1931 - 1943. 

Read Full Article HTML DOI: 10.29328/journal.jro.1001022 Cite this Article Read Full Article PDF

Keywords:

iodine metabolism, hyperplastic thyroid gland, radiophamceuticals

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