Sydney "Sid" Martin Finegold (August 21, 1921, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City – September 17, 2018, Los Angeles) was an American physician, medical school professor, and medical researcher, specializing in anaerobic bacteriology.
Born in New York City to Russian, Jewish immigrant parents who worked as pharmacists, Sydney Finegold had a sister and an older brother.
[1] Sydney Finegold graduated in 1943 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a bacteriology major and served from 1943 to 1945 in the US Marine Corps.
[2] After WWII ended, he matriculated at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he graduated in 1949 with an M.D.
[2] From 1950 to 1952 he was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he was mentored by Wesley W. Spink and Wendell H.