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Steroid expert had a passionate commitment to science
[SIZE=-1]The Gazette (Montreal), Canada [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Samuel Solomon was a director of the McGill Centre for Research on Endocrine Mechanisms and one of the world's foremost experts on steroids. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]His expertise in steroid abuse was, in part, responsible for having Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson stripped of the gold medal he was awarded at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Solomon died Dec. 13 at his home in Westmount of complications following a stroke, one week after his 83rd birthday.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Sam Solomon's knowledge of steroid biochemistry combined with his research on the fundamental molecular signaling in early development and his passion as a researcher and teacher led to major innovations in the then new field of molecular endocrinology and development," said Dr. David Goltzman, professor of Medicine and Physiology at McGill University. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In 1987, Solomon was appointed a scientific adviser on steroids to the Dubin commission on banned practices in sport. He was a chairman of the steering committee for the International Group for Steroid Hormones which, in 1988, advised Sports Canada on Ben Johnson's use of anabolic steroids. Solomon was also scientific adviser to the National Football League and served as Quebec regional director of the Medical Research Council of Canada before he retired [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]The Gazette (Montreal), Canada [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Samuel Solomon was a director of the McGill Centre for Research on Endocrine Mechanisms and one of the world's foremost experts on steroids. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]His expertise in steroid abuse was, in part, responsible for having Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson stripped of the gold medal he was awarded at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Solomon died Dec. 13 at his home in Westmount of complications following a stroke, one week after his 83rd birthday.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Sam Solomon's knowledge of steroid biochemistry combined with his research on the fundamental molecular signaling in early development and his passion as a researcher and teacher led to major innovations in the then new field of molecular endocrinology and development," said Dr. David Goltzman, professor of Medicine and Physiology at McGill University. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In 1987, Solomon was appointed a scientific adviser on steroids to the Dubin commission on banned practices in sport. He was a chairman of the steering committee for the International Group for Steroid Hormones which, in 1988, advised Sports Canada on Ben Johnson's use of anabolic steroids. Solomon was also scientific adviser to the National Football League and served as Quebec regional director of the Medical Research Council of Canada before he retired [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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