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Toxicological Sciences 73, 4-7 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 by the Society of Toxicology

PROFILES IN TOXICOLOGY

Sidney Laskin (1919–1976)

Bernard D. Goldstein1

University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

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Sid Laskin was from Brooklyn, and it was a statistical certainty that anyone who was with him for more than a few minutes would be told about his Brooklyn background. To Sid, these roots provided guidance in his professional career. A characteristic that he ascribed to his background, for example, was the ability to go right to the heart of an issue, to ignore peripheral distractions. He delighted in finding simple fixes to complex issues. This was evident in his choice of problems, in his experimental design, and in his technical approaches. He also was a stubborn man, stubborn in his insistence on the highest quality of work and on the highest ethical standards. There are various explanations as to why he never made the minor revisions needed to get his PhD thesis accepted at the University of Rochester. But they are all consistent with his stubborn insistence on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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