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Early Life Chester Milton Southam was born on October 4, 1919 in Salem, Massachusetts to Walter and Elizabeth Southam. Walter worked as an engineer while Elizabeth worked at home. Chester also had an older brother named Llyod. In 1941, Chester completed his B.S at University of Idaho. Thereafter, he completed his M.S and M.D at Columbia University in 1943 and 1947, respectively. He was an intern at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York from 1947 to 1948. Southan worked as a researcher in the virology and immunology division of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and then as an attending physician at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer from 1948 to 1971. From 1951 to 1971, Southam also worked as an instructor and then an associate professor of medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center. Later Life In 1952, Chester M Southam began injecting test subjects, who were either prisoners at an Ohio state penitentiary or hospital patients at Brooklyn’s Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, with live cancer cells for his research. The Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York found Drs. Chester M. Southam and Emanuel E. Mandel guilty of fraud and deceit because they did not properly inform the patients that they were injecting live cancer cells into them. He was never prosecuted and only received a one-year probation. Afterwards, he worked as the head of the division of Medical Oncology at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in from 1971 to 1979. He also served as a professor of medicine and an attending physician from 1971 to 1995 in the Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Southam was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians from 1973 to 1983, conducted medical research and published more than a hundred articles on cancer bacteriological studies. In the 1990s, a journalist from the New York Post tracked Southam down to interview him. 30 years after the experiment, Southam still believes his experiment was ethical and significant for cancer research. He strongly believed that no patient would contract cancer and if one did, “ … we’d just cut it out.” He died in his home on April 5, 2002 at the age of eighty-two years. He was survived by his wife Gertrude, sons, Lawrence and Arthur, daughter, Lenore and stepchildren, Kathleen and Seth as well as nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. At his memorial service held in his home on April 12, 2002, his family requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to Sloan Kettering Institute for cancer research. Mhayath (talk) 07:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC)