Walter Bodmer
Walter Bodmer · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who advanced human population genetics and helped launch the Human Genome Project.
1936, Frankfurt, Germany
Germany · United Kingdom
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Sir Walter Bodmer is a human geneticist who advanced population genetics and the study of the HLA system and was an early champion of the Human Genome Project, later leading it in the UK. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he emigrated to England as a child before the Second World War.
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Geneticist who advanced human population genetics and helped launch the Human Genome Project.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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