Name Soma Weiss Role Physician | Education Weill Cornell Medicine | |
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Died January 1942, United States of America | ||
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Soma Weiss (1898–1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician.
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- Soma weiss student research day hms 2017
- 2018 Soma Weiss Day
- Early life
- Career
- Death and legacy
- Medical achievements
- References
2018 Soma Weiss Day
Early life
Soma Weiss was born in 1898 in Beszterce, Transylvania, then part of Hungary. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediately after the end of World War I, he emigrated to the United States and qualified in medicine in 1923.
Ernest Sachs, Jr., a neurosurgeon who was Goldman Sachs's founder Marcus Goldman's great-grandson, was Weiss's cousin.
Career
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. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, the majority relating to cardiovascular diseases and pharmacology.
Death and legacy
Weiss died suddenly in 1942, aged only 43 years, secondary to a ruptured intracranial aneurysm. An annual lecture in his name is held at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in his honour - The Soma Weiss Award.