The Leighton tube for growing cells on microscope slides was devised by Joseph Leighton (1921-1999), a physician with an MD from the Long Island College Medicine who conducted research at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, and taught pathology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Ref: “Cancer Develops in Human Tissue First Time in Bethesda Laboratory,” Washington Post (March 23, 1956), p. 1.
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