Israel Lyon Chaikoff
Israel Lyon Chaikoff | |
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| Born | July 2, 1902 London, UK |
| Died | January 25, 1966 (aged 63) Berkeley, California, USA |
| Education | University of Toronto (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M.D.) |
| Known for | Wolff–Chaikoff effect |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | John Macleod |
| Doctoral students | Isadore Perlman Walter M. Fitch |
Israel Lyon Chaikoff (2 July 1902, in London, UK – 25 January 1966, in Berkeley, USA) was a Canadian-American physiologist and biochemist, known for the Wolff–Chaikoff effect. He and his colleagues were pioneers in the use of radioactive iodine (iodine-131) to investigate thyroid function.