Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish physician and cancer researcher, born in Czestochowa in 1925. He survived the Warsaw and Czestochowa ghettos and the HASAG-Pelcery camp, studied medicine in Lodz and Denmark, and settled in Sweden. From 1967 to 1992 he was chief physician at Radiumhemmet at the Karolinska University Hospital, professor of radiotherapy and director of the Karolinska Hospital. He sat on the Nobel Prize committee in medicine, received the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America, co-founded the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 1981 and served in the Swedish parliament from 1991 to 1994. He died in Danderyd in 2000.
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland – 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland, 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland, 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
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His children, Stefan and Lena Einhorn, are both well-known authors in Sweden.
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an honorary member and recipient of the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland, 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland, 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
Specialist In: Oncology, Career, oncology
Einhorn was chief physician at Sweden's prestigious oncological institution, Radiumhemmet at the Karolinska University Hospital, from 1967 till he retired in 1992.
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