Israel Doniach FRCP (9 March 1911 – 11 February 2001) was a British physician, pathologist and expert on the causes and diagnosis of thyroid cancers. He was the first to show that radioactive

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, which had been used for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with various types of

thyroid disease Thyroid disease is a medical condition that affects the structure and/or function of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is located at the front of the neck and produces thyroid hormones that travel through the blood to help regulate many other ...

, could itself be

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to the

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Family

His wife was clinical immunologist

Deborah Doniach Deborah Doniach ( Abileah; 6 April 1912 – 1 January 2004) was a British clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. Early and personal life Deborah Abileah was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 April 1912 to Russian ...

(1912-2004). They had two children,

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, a physicist, and Vera (1936-1958).

References

External links

The Doniach Lecture
1911 births 2001 deaths English pathologists {{England-med-bio-stub