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Toxicological Sciences 58, 220-221 (2000)
Copyright © 2000 by the Society of Toxicology

Profiles in Toxicology

Josef Warkany

Calvin Willhite1

Department of Toxic Substances Control, State of California, 700 Heinz Street, Suite 200, Berkeley, California 94710

Dr. Josef Warkany, pediatrician, scientist, and artist, was the first person to demonstrate that exposures to environmental chemicals, including dietary deficiencies and excesses, are responsible for production of congenital malformations. Until that time, it was widely believed that birth defects were due to chance or "God's will." For his work in this area, Dr. Warkany is known as the father of teratology.

Warkany was born and educated in Vienna, Austria, and by 1930 had published 23 scientific papers. Warkany . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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