The scientific legacy of Stephen Rothman.
The year 2014 marks the centennial of events that led to the First World War ("the war to end all wars") following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. It also marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Rothman and the 60th anniversary of the publication of his epic textbook The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Skin. In this review, we document our belief that Rothman had a seismic impact on moving investigative dermatology from a medical backwater to a scientific discipline that can hold its own with any other specialty.
Department of Dermatology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany.
Walter H C
WHC
Burgdorf
Department of Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. Electronic address: drb25@columbia.edu.
David R
DR
Bickers
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