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Goldberger

American  
[gohld-bur-ger] / ˈgoʊld bɜr gər /

noun

  1. Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.


Goldberger Scientific  
/ gōldbər-gər /
  1. Hungarian-born American physician who investigated the cause and treatment of pellagra. He demonstrated that contrary to common belief, pellagra was not an infectious disease but a nutritional disorder caused by an unbalanced diet and cured by the addition of fresh milk, meat, or yeast.


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However, pretty early into her search, Ms Goldberger said she realised the odds were stacked against her in her hunt for the real thing.

From BBC

When she asked an eBay reseller for proof the Big Into Energy Labubu series she was interested in was genuine, Ms Goldberger was sent "a screenshot of what could have been like almost 200 orders of Labubus".

From BBC

TikToker Meg Goldberger, 27, is no stranger to collecting in a market filled with fakes.

From BBC

“In an era when almost any project can be held up for years by public hearings and reviews by community boards, community groups, civic groups, and planning commissions, not to mention the courts, it is hard not to feel a certain nostalgic tug for Moses’s method of building by decree,” the architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in 2007.

From Slate

Following Harrison’s death in 1981, the Aluminaire House was on the path to demolition before gaining the attention of New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, whose 1987 article championed the timelessness of its principles, if not its aesthetics.

From Los Angeles Times