Person Preferred Name

Maxwell Herbert Poppel

Maxwell H. Poppel

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Image of Maxwell Herbert Poppel, MD (1903-1994) from p. 60 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Poppel received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1927. He was a celebrated radiologist, serving as chairman of the American Institute of Radiology, and the author of a classic textbook on diseases of the pancreas. Poppel was also an outstanding contributor to knowledge of iodine metabolism and insulin antibodies.