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Miriam Dorothy (Posner) Finkel (22 January 1916 – 20 August 1999) was a radiobiologist who made significant contributions to molecular biology. ==Biography== Miriam Dorothy (Miriam Dvorah) Posner was born on 22 January 1916 in Chicago, Illinois to parents that had emigrated from Russia. Her parents were Jacob Posner and Harriet M. Posner.〔United States Census, 1930. Database with images. FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMKM-MQT: accessed 16 August 2015). Miriam Posner in household of Jacob Posner. Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington D.C.〕 She married Asher Finkel. Finkel died on 20 August 1999 at home in Tucson, Arizona.〔United States Social Security Death Index. FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9K2-HZ7: accessed 16 August 2015. Miriam P Finkel, 20 Aug 1999; citing U.S. Social Security Administration. Death Master File, database. Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service.〕 Finkel grew up in Davenport, Iowa. She attended the University of Chicago and in 1938 earned a B.S. in zoology. She worked as a laboratory instructor at Wilson Junior College in Chicago while she pursued doctoral studies and coursework in zoology. In 1944, she was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.〔Finkel, Miriam Posner. (1945). The relation of sex hormones to pigmentation and to testis descent in the opossum and ground squirrel. American Journal of Anatomy. 76(1): 93-151.〕〔Reilly, C.A. (1 Aug 2000). In memoriam: Miriam Dorothy (Posner) Finkel (1916-1999). Radiation Research. 154(2): 224-226.〕 Finkel worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the Clinton Engineer Works as a radiobiologist.〔Howes, Ruth H. & Herzenberg, Caroline L. (22 May 2003). Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Temple University Press.〕 For the majority of her career, she worked at Argonne National Laboratory. She was a member of the American Biological Society. Finkel made significant contributions to several radiological health standards including work on the basis of relative biological effectiveness for internal exposure to radioisotopes.〔Finkel, M. P. (1953). Relative biological effectiveness of radium and other alpha emitters in CF No. 1 female mice. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 83(3), 494-498.〕 Finkel lent her name to the Finkel-Biskis-Jenkins or FBJ virus. Through her work and that of her colleagues, she was able to isolate the murine osteogenic sarcoma virus, now known as the Finkel-Biskis-Jenkins or FBJ virus. This and other pursuits resulted in discoveries in viral-induced tumors and resulted in the molecular biological tool, the FOS gene. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miriam Posner Finkel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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