Cornelius Packard "Dusty" Rhoads (June 9, 1898 – August 13, 1959) was an American pathologist and oncologist, who was an administrator: he was director of Memorial Hospital for Cancer Research in New York beginning in 1940, the first director of Sloan-Kettering Institute beginning in 1945, and the first director of the combined Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center. For his contributions to cancer research, he appeared on the cover of the June 27, 1949 issue of Time magazine under the title "Cancer Fighter."
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20 June 1898 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Died |
13 August 1959 (aged 61)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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