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Joseph Goldberger (Slovak: Jozef Goldberger, Hungarian: Goldberger József) (July 16, 1874 – January 17, 1929) was an American physician and epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service (PHS).
Joseph Goldberger, a physician in the U.S. government's Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health, discovered the cause of pellagra and stepped on a number of medical toes when his research experiments showed that diet and not germs (the currently held medical theory) caused the disease.
Oct 17, 2018 · The surgeon general turned to Dr. Joseph Goldberger, an infectious disease specialist, to head the pellagra investigation because he had previously cracked unsolvable cases in a matter of days.
- Sarah Schmitz, Eve J. Lowenstein
- 10.1016/j.ijwd.2018.09.001
- 2019
- 2019/06
Nov 1, 2008 · The disease was not confined to Southern states, however, and the US Congress asked the Surgeon General to investigate the disease. In 1914 he appointed Joseph Goldberger (1874–1929), a medical officer in the US Public Health Service, to lead the investigation.
- Alfredo Morabia
- 2008
Two decades before the discovery of niacin, however, epidemiological and clinical research done by Joseph Goldberger and his colleagues had identified that pellagra could be prevented by improved diet.
Joseph Goldberger was a Jewish immigrant who grew up in New York City, where his parents ran a grocery store on the East Side. He became a physician and joined the US Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, where he established his reputation through investigations of typhoid fever, yellow fever, measles, dengue, and diphtheria.
Jan 15, 2004 · In 1928, Joseph Goldberger fell gravely ill of hypernephroma, a rare form of cancer. He died on January 17, 1929. “He craved travel and adventure” is how Dr. Myron Schultz, a fellow parasitologist, described Goldberger’s life.
