Hans Grüneberg
Hans Gruneberg ( born May 26, 1907 in Elberfeld, † October 23, 1982 in London ) was a German - British geneticist.
Green Mountain was born in Elberfeld, put 1926 on the local high school from the High School and then studied at the University of Bonn medicine and biology in Berlin. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was forced because of his Jewish origin to flee Germany. On an invitation from Henry Hallett Dale and JBS Haldane, he went to London, where worked with Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Michael James Denham White. He received his doctorate from the University of London.
He was appointed in 1956 a Fellow of the Royal Society. From 1956 to 1974 he was professor of genetics at University College London. Most of his work focused on the mouse genetics. He specialized in the study of the pleiotropic effects of mutations of the mouse skeleton.
According to him, the Grüneberg ganglion is named.