Edgar Haber,
Blout Professor of Biological Sciences at the Harvard School of Public
Health, died of multiple myeloma on October 13, 1997, at the age of 65
years. At the time of his death, Dr Haber was the director of the
Division of Biological Sciences at the Harvard School of Public
Health.
Dr Haber's contributions to cardiovascular research
were substantial, and he will be missed by scientists and
physician-scholars throughout the world. He was born in Berlin,
Germany. He obtained an AB degree from Columbia College and an MD
degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City. His training in internal medicine was at Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston. He served as an Associate at the National Heart
Institute in the laboratory of cellular physiology in Bethesda, Md. His
mentor at the NIH was Professor Christian Anfinsen, who later won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Subsequently, he was an Honorary Clinical
Assistant in the Cardiac Department at St George's Hospital in London,
England.
Dr Haber began his faculty career as an instructor in medicine at
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in 1963.
Within 8 years, he had been promoted to professor of medicine at
Harvard Medical School. From 1964 to 1988, he served as the chief of
the Cardiac Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was only the
third chief of this distinguished cardiac program up to that time,
following in the footsteps of Dr Paul Dudley White and Dr Edward Bland.
While
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
In Memoriam
Edgar Haber, MD
Innovative Scientist, Mentor, and Leader in Cardiovascular Medicine