Joseph Goldberger, M.D. (Hungarian: Goldberger Jószef) (July 16, 1874–January 17, 1929) was a Hungarian Jewish 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, Hungary (now in Slovakia). The ...
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Joseph Goldberger, M.D. (Hungarian: Goldberger Jószef) (July 16, 1874–January 17, 1929) was a Hungarian Jewish 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, Hungary (now in Slovakia). 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,...
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