Harrison Stanford Martland

Harrison Stanford Martland (September 10, 1883 – May 1, 1954) was an American pathologist who identified radium as the cause of cancer and death among watch dial painters, and also coined the term punch drunk to describe chronic head injuries from boxing.

Martland determined that minute traces of radioactivity contained in luminous paint had caused the deaths of watch dial painters employed at the US Radium Corporation in Orange, NJ.

[4] At the request of the AEC, Martland prepared a permanent exhibit on radioactive dangers and precautions which is on display in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

It was Martland who proved, back in 1928, that "punch drunk" prize fighters were suffering from a brain injury caused by the rupture of blood vessels.

His papers are part of the New Jersey Medical History Archives and Manuscript Collections at George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers University.

The new building of the Newark City Hospital was named the Martland Medical Center and is now part of Rutgers University