Rosenfeld, Irene.

Dr. Irene Rosenfeld (1908-1983) was an experimental pathologist at the University of Wyoming for 25 years. She did extensive research on the element selenium and its effects on mammals, birds and humans. She authored over sixty publications and co-authored, with Orville A. Beath, the book "Selenium" in 1964.

Irene Rosenfeld was born in Austria in 1908. She came to the United States in 1920 and became a naturalized citizen in 1921. Her higher education included a B.A. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1942 from Ohio State University in the fields of biochemistry, bacteriology and experimental pathology. She worked as an instructor in pathology at O.S.U. 1941-1942 and came to the University of Wyoming as an assistant professor-research pathology in 1942. She worked as a researcher though other job titles held during her career were agricultural biochemist and associate pharmacologist. She had a sabbatical year as an atomic energy fellow at the University of California-Berkeley, Donner Laboratory, 1948-1949, and was visiting scientist in cancer research at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, 1956-1957.

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