Robert James Gorlin (January 11, 1923 – August 29, 2006) was an American oral pathologist, human geneticist and academic at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.
[2][3] Raised in Newark, New Jersey, Gorlin graduated from Weequahic High School in 1940.
degree in 1943 from Columbia University, Gorlin volunteered for the Army, where he was instructed to apply to dental school.
At the time of his death, he was the UM Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Oral Pathology.
He published over 600 articles in a variety of topics, and held joint appointments with the University of Minnesota's departments of pediatric medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology and dermatology.