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Henry S. Kaplan  

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  • AMERICAN CANCER SPECIALIST Henry S. Kaplan was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1979 for “distinguished leadership in the development of a highly effective therapeutic regimen for Hodgkin's disease.” His efforts ensured that radiotherapy became a new discipline in oncology. Kaplan also pioneered research in radiobiology and was involved in experimental work with the viral etiology of rat leukemia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Kaplan, Henry S.]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RX1WGF11-R

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