Paul Hyman Silverman (October 8, 1924 – July 15, 2004) was an American medical researcher in the fields of immunology, epidemiology, and parasitology.
[3] In 1987, he helped organize a partnership between the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to establish the first research center dedicated to the study of the human genome.
[4] He then worked at Beckman Instruments for several years before being appointed Associate Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of California, Irvine in 1994, a position he held until his retirement in 1996.
In the fall of 2003, he gave the commencement speech to the class of Roosevelt University, from which he received an honorary doctorate of human letters.
"[1][2][8] Silverman met his wife, Nancy Josephs,[2] while he was serving in the Army during World War II.
Paul Silverman died on July 16, 2004, of complications resulting from a bone marrow transplant he had received to treat his myelofibrosis.