(1905-1962) US physician and pediatrician who made pioneering investigations into sickle-cell anemia. He concluded in 1937 that the disease was inherited following Mendelian law and almost always occurred in black people or people of African descent; not all persons with sickle cells were necessarily anemic and not all patients died of the disease.
Cardozo studied at Ohio State University. In 1937 he started private practice in Washington, DC, and was appointed part-time instructor in pediatrics at Howard University College of Medicine and Freedmen's Hospital, later being promoted to associate professor.
Cardozo’s investigations were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine as Immunologic studies in sickle cell anemia.

(1870-1938) US jurist and Supreme Court justice. He was appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Hoover 1932. During the F D Roosevelt administration, he upheld the constitutionality of New Deal programs to counter the depression of 1929 conveyed in such famous cases as Ashwander v Tennessee Valley Authority 1936.
Born in New York, US, Cardozo was educated at Columbia University and was admitted to the bar 1891. After a brief career as a corporate counsel, he was elected to the New York Supreme Court 1913 and was appointed associate justice of the court of appeals 1917, becoming its chief judge 1926.