Richard Setlow
Richard Setlow · Science & Medicine
Discovered DNA repair of ultraviolet damage; Fermi Award (1988)
1921, New York City, United States — 2015, United States
United States
Richard Setlow is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Discovered DNA repair of ultraviolet damage; Fermi Award (1988)
Richard Setlow was a biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who, in the 1960s, demonstrated that ultraviolet light damages DNA and that cells possess enzymes to repair it, foundational work in the biology of DNA repair, cancer and aging that earned him the Enrico Fermi Award (1988). He grew up in the Bronx, New York. He is included in listings of Jewish scientists, though his personal Jewish background is not extensively documented in mainstream sources.
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Discovered DNA repair of ultraviolet damage; Fermi Award (1988)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award
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