March 31, 1932(1932-03-31) (aged 51) Manhattan, New York
Sporting nationality
United States
Career
Status
Amateur
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
PGA Championship
DNP
U.S. Open
CUT: 1908
The Open Championship
DNP
U.S. Amateur
Won: 1906
British Amateur
T17: 1904
Ebenezer McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was an American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water.
from radium dissolved in water. The son of industrialist Alexander Byers, EbenByers was educated at St. Paul's School and Yale College. He earned a reputation...
ended in 1932, with the premature death of one of its most fervent users, EbenByers, an American golfer. This history led to the strengthening of regulatory...
of this condition was the death of American golfer and industrialist EbenByers in 1932, after taking large doses of Radithor, a radioactive patent medicine...
health, and high-profile cases such as the Radium Girls and the death of EbenByers, which proved this fact. In the United States, the 1938 Federal Food,...
developer William J. A. Bailey to have curative properties. Industrialist EbenByers died in 1932 from ingesting it in large quantities throughout 1927–1930...
cartoonist, and artist EbenByers (1880–1932), American socialite, golfer and industrialist who died from drinking radioactive "medicine" Eben Pomeroy Colton...
United States. It was not until 1932, when the prominent American athlete EbenByers, who by his own account had taken about 1,400 vials of Radithor as medicine...
credit is given to the deaths of many people in the 1930s, including EbenByers in 1932 from the ingestion of radithor and many women, some known as The...
Within two days, he contracted typhoid fever and died two months later. EbenByers 31 March 1932 The American socialite and industrialist died after drinking...
understood. Curie later died of aplastic anemia caused by radiation poisoning. EbenByers, a famous American socialite, died of multiple cancers (but not acute...
Denver contaminated. 1927–1930 – No INES level – USA – radium poisoning EbenByers ingested almost 1400 bottles of Radithor, a radioactive patent medicine...
period such as the Prostate Warmer. The eventual death of the socialite EbenByers from Radithor consumption and the associated radiation poisoning led to...
Congressman Jared M. Brush (1814–1895), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1869–72) EbenByers (1880–1932), wealthy American industrialist and socialite noted for his...
radioluminescent paints having been improperly disposed of is not unknown. EbenByers was a wealthy American socialite whose death in 1932 from using a radioactive...
ingredients were calf's brain, sugar and milk. Radithor: American socialite EbenByers died of radiation-induced cancer in 1932 after consuming this radioactive...
J. Warner, Clarence Blakeslee, Oliver Gould Jennings, J. Frederic Byers, EbenByers, Charles Merrill, S. Brink Thorne, Julian Curtiss, Henry Havemeyer...
Alex Smith Other tournaments British Amateur – James Robb US Amateur – EbenByers England Grand National – Ascetic's Silver 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Flair...
radioluminescent watch factory. In 1932, a well-known industrialist, EbenByers died of radiation poisoning from the use of Radithor, a radium water guaranteed...
March 18 – Chauncey Olcott, musical theater actor (born 1858) March 31 – EbenByers, steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (born 1880) April 2...
S. Amateur 2 up Findlay S. Douglas 1901 U.S. Amateur 5 & 4 Walter Egan 1903 U.S. Amateur 5 & 4 EbenByers 1904 British Amateur 4 & 3 Edward Blackwell...