Leon Greenberg
Leon Greenberg · Science & Medicine
Physiologist and biomedical researcher
1907, New Britain, Connecticut, United States — 1985, United States
United States
Leon Greenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physiologist and biomedical researcher
Leon A. Greenberg was an American physiologist at Yale and later Rutgers who studied the physiology of alcohol and, in 1941, invented the Alcometer, an early breath-alcohol testing device that helped establish breath analysis as a scientifically valid method for measuring blood alcohol content. He long edited the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. He is listed among Jewish biomedical scientists.
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Physiologist and biomedical researcher
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
