Biographical Note
George Silverton was born on July 6, 1908, in Ansonia, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1928, and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1932. In 1933 he married Sara Silberstein. Dr. Silverton practiced medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Officers' Reserve Corps in 1934. At the outbreak of World War II he began active duty with the Army Medical Corps, and trained as a radiologist.
After training at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, Dr. Silverton deployed to the European Theater with the 2nd Evacuation Hospital, serving throughout the British Isles, France, Belgium, and Germany. Dr. Silverton was assistant radiologist from March 1942 until July 1943, when he became chief radiologist. As chief, Dr. Silverton designed and employed improvements to available x-ray equipment to ensure x-ray images were created with maximum accuracy and efficiency.
Dr. Silverton returned from Europe and was discharged from the Army in July 1945. He continued his career in radiology, working at hospitals in New York, North Carolina, and Maryland, and retired in 1993. He died on April 18, 2002.