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NIH physician Dr. Joseph Goldberger's discovery of the cause for pellagra, a disease, resulting from a diet deficient in vitamin B, that killed many poor Southerners in the early part of the 20th century.
  Dr. Joseph Goldberger  
   
  Dr. Joseph Goldberger  
     
  A photo of Dr. Joseph Goldberger. A product of New York's public schools, Joseph Goldberger entered The City College of New York with hopes of a career in engineering. However, in 1892 Goldberger heard a lecture at Bellevue by physiologist Dr. Austin Flint, Jr. that changed his plans. Perhaps entranced by the intricacies of the human body's structure, Goldberger transferred to medical school and earned an M.D. from Bellevue in 1895.  
     
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