Gustaf Elmer Lindskog (7 February 1903 – 4 August 2002) was a thoracic surgeon and the William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery and chair of surgery at the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary te ...

, best known for having participated in the first pharmaceutical treatment of cancer.

Biography

Lindskog was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1903. He received his B.Sc. degree from the

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in 1923 and his M.D. degree from

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in 1928, then served for four years as a

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in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy during

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Bibliography

*''Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery & Related Pathology'' with Averill Liebow and William Glenn (1953, 1962, 1975)

References

External Links

Gustaf E. Lindskog Papers.
Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University 1903 births 2002 deaths Massachusetts Agricultural College alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Yale School of Medicine faculty {{US-academic-bio-stub