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Alexander Gottschalk, MD1 died peacefully on October 5 at the age of 78, after a S-y battle with prostate cancer. Alex was born in Chicago, IL, in 1932 to illustrious parent educators. Both were professors at the University of Chicago: Louis was a historian and president of the American Historical Society, who specialized in the French Revolution, and Fruma Kasden Gottschalk, a Russian immigranL was professor of Slovak languages and literature. Alex received his magna cum laude baccalaureate degree from Harvard in 1954 and his medical degree in 1958 from Washington University of St. Louis, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He returned to Chicago for an internship at the University of Illinois and a radiology residency at the University of Chicago, which he completed in 1962.
During his residency, Alex became fascinated with and developed his lifelong interest in the fledgling field of nuclear medicine. To pursue this exciting new interest, he accepted a 2-y research associate position at the Donner Research Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, where he worked closely with Hal Anger, the developer of the scintillation camera that bears his name and remains the primary imaging instrument in today's clinical nuclear medicine practice. Lending his clinical expertise and ingenuity to...