The Scientist : NewsBlog Print: Thyroid researcher dies
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Thyroid researcher dies
[Entry posted at 2nd June 2008 05:42 PM GMT]
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Jacob Robbins, an NIH thyroid researcher and co-discoverer of the active form of thyroid hormone, died on May 12 in Bethesda, Md, of heart failure. He was 85 years old.

In the 1950s Robbins and colleague Joseph Rall, both then at Memorial ...

 

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