He was the first child of European Jewish immigrants, Max and Jennie Auerbach.
[1] He attended Staten Island Academy[2] but never completed high school or college.
Beginning in 1952, he worked for the Veterans Administration, holding the title senior medical investigator at his death.
Auerbach studied the link between smoking and cancer, and was called a "tireless" researcher.
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