Edgar Haber

Edgar Haber (February 1, 1932 – October 13, 1997), was a research physician specializing in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology.

He was, at times, Chief of Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Higgins Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, President of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and Director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The rise to power of the Nazis soon thereafter led his family to seek to leave Germany, but his mother's Lithuanian origin prevented them from coming directly to the United States.

His family was finally permitted entrance to the United States in March, 1939 where they lived in New York City for nine months while his father studied and took a qualifying exam to be a physician in the US.

Edgar Haber was married to Carol Ellen Avery on November 16, 1958, in Bethesda, Maryland.