Professor Martin I. Rubin: A Personal Remembrance

Abstract

I feel privileged to write this personal obituary for Prof. Martin Rubin, as he had such a profound and positive influence on my life. I first met Prof. Rubin when he visited the Laboratory at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital in London, where I was working as a young biochemist with a Masters degree. He was very impressed with the extent of automation that the laboratory had even in those early years of automation. When he asked me if I would like to come to the United States for a year, to supervise and overhaul the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, I jumped at the possibility of this unique opportunity. As my year at Georgetown was coming to its end, Prof. Rubin urged me to apply to the Department …