| Manfred Steiner | |
| Birth Date: | 23 November 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Vienna, First Austrian Republic |
| Death Date: | January 7, 2023 (age 91) |
| Workplaces: | Brown Medical School |
| Occupation: | Hematologist, physicist |
Manfred Steiner (November 23, 1931 - January 7, 2023) was an Austrian-born American hematologist and physicist who taught at Brown Medical School until 2000. He completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the age of 89 in September 2021.
Steiner was born in Vienna on November 23, 1931. He earned a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to Washington, D.C. to complete his initial training in internal medicine. Steiner studied hematology at Tufts University before earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967.[1]
Steiner moved to Rhode Island to teach at the Medical School of Brown University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1978.[2] Towards the end of his career, Steiner worked to establish a program in hematology at the University South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He retired from medicine in 2000.[3]
In September 2021, Steiner completed a Ph.D. in physics at Brown University; his dissertation was entitled Corrections to the Geometrical Interpretation of Bosonization. Steiner's doctoral advisor was .[4] [5]
He died on January 7, 2023 at the age of 91. https://www.smith-masonfuneralhome.com/obituary/Manfred-Steiner