Mortimer Murray Elkind

Background

Elkind, Mortimer Murray was born on October 25, 1922 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Yetta (Lubarsky) Elkind.

Education

BME, Cooper Union, 1943; Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, 1949; Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953.

Career

Assistant project engineer, Wyssmont Company. New York City, 1943; project engineer, Safe Flight Instrument Corporation, White Plains, New York, 1946-1947; head instrumentation section, Sloan Kettering Institute Cancer Research, 1947-1949; physicist, National Cancer Institute on assignment to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949-1953; on assignment to, Donner Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, 1953-1954; physicist, Laboratory Physiology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1954-1967; senior research physicist, Laboratory Physiology, National Cancer Institute, 1967-1969; senior biophysicist biology department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York, 1969-1973; guest scientist Medical Research Council experimental radiopathology unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1971-1973; senior biophysicist, division biological and medical research, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1973-1976; from assistant director to head mammalian cell biology group, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1976-1981; professor radiology, University of Chicago, 1973-1982; professor, department chairman radiology and radiation biology, Colorado State University, 1981-1989; Distinguished professor department radiological health science, Colorado State University, since 1986. Radiation study section National Institutes of Health, 1962-1966, molecular biology study section, 1970-1971.

Member developmental therapeutics committee National Cancer Institute, 1975-1977.

Achievements

• Mortimer Murray Elkind has been listed as a noteworthy Biophysicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

With United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow American College Radiology (honorary). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biophysics Society, Radiation Research Society (council 1965-1966, associate editor journal 1965-1968, president-elect and president 1980-1981, G. Failla Memorial award 1984), American Association Cancer Research (associate editor journal 1980-1981), American Society Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (gold medalist 1983), Tau Beta Pi.

Connections

Married Karla Annikki Holst, January 27, 1960. Children— Sean Thomas, Samuel Scott, Jonathan Harald.

Father:

Samuel Elkind

Mother:

Yetta (Lubarsky) Elkind

Spouse:

Karla Annikki Holst