Background
Steinberg, Arthur Gerald was born on February 27, 1912 in Port Chester, New York, United States. Son of Bernard Aaron and Sarah (Kaplan) Steinberg.
Steinberg, Arthur Gerald was born on February 27, 1912 in Port Chester, New York, United States. Son of Bernard Aaron and Sarah (Kaplan) Steinberg.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1933. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1934. Doctor of Philosophy (University fellow), Columbia University, 1941.
Member genetics department McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1940-1944. Chairman department genetics Fels Research Institute, associate professor genetics Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1946-1948. Consultant division biometry and medical statistics Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1948-1952.
Geneticist Children's Cancer Research Foundation and research associate Children's Hospital, Boston, 1952-1956. Professor biology Case We. Reserve University, Cleveland, 1956-1972, assistant professor human genetics, department preventive medicine, 1956-1960, associate professor, 1960-1970, professor human genetics, department reproductive biology, from 1970, Francis Hobart Herrick professor biology, 1972-1982, emeritus and from 1982, professor human genetics, department medicine, 1975-1982.
Lecturer genetics department orthodontics Harvard School Dental Medicine, 1956-1958. Director heredity clinic Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, 1958-1976. Visiting professor Albert Einstein Medical College, New York City, 1962, 64, 66, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1972, New York University School Medicine, 1977.
XIIth Annual Raymond Dart lecturer University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1975. Member permanent committee to arrange International Congresses Human Genetics. Member medical advisory board Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Cleveland, 1957-1969.
Member science advisory board National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, 1961-1963. Consultant to expert advisory panel on human genetics World Health Organization, 1961, member expert advisory panel, 1965-1985. Member research advisory committee United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, 1962-1965.
Member medical advisory board National Genetics Foundation, 1966-1968, chairman, 1968-1980. Director World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Genetic Factors of Human Immunoglobulins, 1966-1978. Consultant study of diabetes in Pima Indians National Institutes of Health, since 1970.
Board directors Cleveland Zoo. Member Cleveland Institute Art, Cleveland Museum Art, Cleveland Health Museum, Museum Natural History. Fellow Australian Academy of Sciences (senior ), American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Society Human Genetics (president 1964, director 1954-1966), Genetics Society of America, American Association Immunologists, Japanese Society Human Genetics (honorary), Societe Francaise d'Anthropologie et d'Ecologie Humaine (foreign member science counsel 1972), Sigma Xi.
Married Edith Wexler, November 22, 1939. Children: Arthur E., Jean E. Strimling.