Harvey M. Patt

Harvey Milton Patt (August 2, 1918 – November 4, 1982) was an American physiologist, radiation biologist, and cell biologist, who made "important scientific contributions in cell cycle kinetics and tissue repopulation."

Education and career Patt received in 1942 his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Chicago. His dissertation is titled The relation of a low blood calcium to parathyroid secretion. He was an instructor in physiology at the University of Chicago after serving for two years as a lieutenant J.G. in the United States Navy. He was the executive secretary of the Oberlin Conference on Radiobiology, He was an important pioneer of the field of radiobiology. As a member of the Radiation Research Society, he was the first treasurer, the ninth president, and an editorial board member of the journal Radiation Research, as well as the executive secretary of the First International Congress of Radiation Research;

At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Patt was appointed in 1964 the director of the Laboratory of Radiobiology he developed the program with format still used at UCSF. In February 1964 at UCSF, Mortimer J. Elkind gave the inaugural Harvey M. Patt Memorial Lecture; after the lecture a plaque in memory of Patt was dedicated at UCSF's Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health. ) (Marguerite N. Swift was a physiologist who worked on the Manhattan Project. She was one of the seventy signers of the Szilárd petition. )

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