Soma Weiss
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Soma Weiss was born in Bestereze in Transylvania, then part of Hungary. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediately after the end of World War I he emigrated to the USA and qualified in medicine in 1923. After initially working at Cornell University Weiss moved to Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 became physician-in-chief and professor at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Weiss was widely acknowledged as a highly professional physician and an excellent colleague and mentor. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, the majority relating to cardiovascular diseases and pharmacology. He died suddenly in 1942, aged only 43 years, secondary to a ruptured intracranial aneurysm.
Medical achievements:
- He was the first to describe the carotid sinus hypersensitivity syndrome
- In 1925 with Hermann Blumgart performed the first application of in-vivo circulating blood radioactive tracers
- In 1929 with G. Kenneth Mallory described hemorrhagic lacerations of the cardiac orifice of the stomach due to vomiting: Mallory-Weiss syndrome
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