Elizabeth Stern

Elizabeth Stern (born Sept. 19, 1915, Cobalt, Ont., Can.—died Aug. 18, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a Canadian-born American pathologist, noted for her work on the stages of a cell’s progression from a normal to a cancerous state. Stern received a medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1939 and the following year went to the United States, where she became a naturalized citizen in 1943. She received further medical training at the...