Toxicological Sciences 65, 164-165 (2002)
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Arthur John Vorwald, 19041974
Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Wayne State University, 207 College of Pharmacy & AHP Annex, Detroit, Michigan 48202
Arthur Vorwald would not have considered himself a toxicologist but, as an experimental pathologist with specialization in dust disease of the lung, he became a pioneer of the field. He was one of the first investigators to practice exposure of experimental animals to controlled dust aerosols in inhalation chambers, and numerous early discoveries, including competent description of the lung lesion in asbestosis and the first production of lung cancers in rats with beryllium, are associated with his name. His legacy
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