Emile Zuckerkandl
Emile Zuckerkandl · Science & Medicine
Biologist who co-introduced the molecular clock concept in evolutionary biology.
1922, Vienna, Austria — 2013, Palo Alto, California, USA
Austria · France · United States
Emile Zuckerkandl is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist who co-introduced the molecular clock concept in evolutionary biology.
Emile Zuckerkandl was a biologist who, with Linus Pauling in the early 1960s, introduced the concept of the 'molecular clock' and helped found the field of molecular evolution by using protein and DNA sequences to date evolutionary divergence. This work reshaped how scientists reconstruct the tree of life. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled Nazi persecution to France and later the United States; he was Jewish.
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Biologist who co-introduced the molecular clock concept in evolutionary biology.
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