Manfred Steiner (physician)

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Manfred Steiner
Born(1931-11-23)November 23, 1931
DiedJanuary 7, 2023 (age 91)
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Hematologist, physicist
Scientific career
Institutions Brown Medical School

Manfred Steiner (November 23, 1931 - January 7, 2023) was an Austrian-born American hematologist and physicist who taught at Brown Medical School until 2000. He completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the age of 89 in September 2021.

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Life

Steiner was born in Vienna on November 23, 1931. He earned a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to Washington, D.C. to complete his initial training in internal medicine. Steiner studied hematology at Tufts University before earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. [1]

Steiner moved to Rhode Island to teach at the Medical School of Brown University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1978. [2] Towards the end of his career, Steiner worked to establish a program in hematology at the University South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He retired from medicine in 2000. [3]

In September 2021, Steiner completed a Ph.D. in physics at Brown University; his dissertation was entitled Corrections to the Geometrical Interpretation of Bosonization. Steiner's doctoral advisor was Brad Marston  [ Wikidata ]. [4] [5]

He died on January 7, 2023 at the age of 91. https://www.smith-masonfuneralhome.com/obituary/Manfred-Steiner

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