Maxwell Wintrobe
Maxwell Wintrobe · Science & Medicine
Physician who founded modern hematology and introduced the hematocrit and red-cell indices.
1901, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — 1986, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Canada · Baltimore · Salt Lake City
Maxwell Wintrobe is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician who founded modern hematology and introduced the hematocrit and red-cell indices.
Maxwell Wintrobe was a physician regarded as a founder of modern hematology, who introduced the hematocrit tube and the red-cell indices that remain the basis of routine blood analysis. From a Jewish family, he wrote the first comprehensive textbook 'Clinical Hematology' (1942) and built one of the field's leading research programs at the University of Utah.
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Physician who founded modern hematology and introduced the hematocrit and red-cell indices.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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