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THE FINAL YEARS, COLUMBIA, 1961-79 After two years in Buffalo, Jacob was invited by Alfred GelThorn, then director of the Institute of Cancer Research, and Donald McKay, chairman of the Pathology Department at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, to join the pathology department and to head the pathology department at the Francis Delafield Hospital, Columbia's cancer center. Despite his age of sixty-five,
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However, he soon gave these up to concentrate on research and terminates! his position at the Delafield Hospital to join the newly formed Institute of Cancer Research, an independent unit of Columbia University, headed by the late So!
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He never woke up. The following tribute by Gordon Sato, abricigecl here, appeared in the proceedings of a 1982 Cold Spring Harbor conference cleclicated to Jacob: Great artists and great scientists tend to be identified with more than one masterwork.
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Mammary tumors in rats producer! by oral administration of chemical carcinogens, such as 3-methy~cholanthrene, are responsive to the presence of the ovary ant!
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He was president of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Experimental Pathology. He was a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts ant!
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The essential correctness of Jacob's views has been confirmed by the further discovery that the activated oncogenes encocle a number of growth-promoting hormones and their cellular receptors. Jacob brought to experimental pathology a high degree of scholarship, an appreciation of the contributions of the basic sciences to the understancling of disease, ant!
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