Joseph Goldberger
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Portrait of epidemiologist and U.S. Public Health Service physician Dr. Joseph Goldberger.
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| Born |
July 16, 1874 Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | January 17, 1929 (aged 54) Washington, D.C., United States |
| Nationality | Hungarian-American |
| Fields | Epidemiology |
| Institutions | United States Public Health Service |
| Spouse | Mary Goldberger |
Joseph Goldberger (Hungarian: Goldberger József) (July 16, 1874 – January 17, 1929) was an American physician and epidemiologist employed in the United States Public Health Service (PHS). He was an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize for his work on the etiology of pellagra.
Goldberger was born in Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia) in a Jewish family. The youngest of six children, he emigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1883, eventually settling in Manhattan's Lower East Side. After completing his secondary education, Goldberger entered the City College of New York intending to pursue an engineering career. After a chance encounter in 1892, however, Goldberger became interested in medicine and transferred to the Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now the New York University School of Medicine), receiving his M.D. degree in 1895.
Setting up a private medical practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Goldberger soon became intellectually restless. He joined the Public Health Service in 1899, serving first post at the Port of New York, where he conducted health inspections of newly arrived immigrants.
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