Cantor, Maxwell Mordecai
Coroner, Biochemist
[1903]-1981

One of the University Hospital’s first interns, Maxwell Mordecai
Cantor joined the University as a Fellow in Biochemistry in
1930, the same year he was appointed Coroner for the
Province of Alberta.  He became chief provincial coroner in
1948, relinquishing his associate professorship at the University
the following year.  Dr. Cantor also served as Director of the
Medical Research Division at the University of Alberta Hospital.
He retired in 1976.  Dr. Cantor conducted experimental research
in endocrinology, and during World War II he set up the
Provincial Blood Bank in the University’s biochemistry laboratory.

Text, 1928-1950, 0.26 m    

Case histories, 1931-1949
Patients referred to Dr. Cantor. 

City Coroner, 1946-1948
Reports received.

Correspondence, 1928-1950
Personal and professional matters.

Lecture notes, 1940-1944

Medical Library Committee, 1945-1949

Papers delivered or published, 1937-1949

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