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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

William E. Paul (1936–2015)

Nature
 
526,
 
324
 
 
doi:10.1038/526324a
Published online
 
Ronald N. Germain
Paul, who died on 18 September, was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. He prided himself on the fact that his higher education was at public rather than private institutions. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 1956 from Brooklyn College and his medical degree in 1960 from the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center, also in Brooklyn. While at medical school, he married Marilyn Heller.
During a two-year medical residency at Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals (now Boston Medical Center), Paul worked on amyloidosis, a rare disease that occurs when a protein called amyloid builds up in tissues. This led to his first paper, in Nature. More than 600 publications would follow./.../

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