James F. Crow

James Franklin Crow ( born January 18, 1916 in Phoenixville at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; † 3, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American geneticist and professor of genetics and zoology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Life

Crow earned in 1937 at the Friends University in Wichita ( Kansas) a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry, and in 1941 JT Patterson and WS Stone at the University of Texas a Ph.D. in zoology. Before he moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1948, he was at Dartmouth College courses in parasitology, hematology, mathematics and statistics. In 1954, he received a full professorship at the University of Wisconsin. He remained on his retirement in 1986, when this university.

Crow was married and had three children.

Work

Crow was considered as an authority in the field of population genetics, human genetics and genetic effects of radiation. He has successfully introduced mathematical models in the study of human patterns of inheritance and studied in Drosophila, the effect of lethal factors on the genetics of populations. More Articles related to the genetic load, the random sample of genes in small populations or the estimation of the degree of inbreeding by similarities of the surname as a marker for the effect of mutations on genetic disorders in humans.

Crow was 1952-1957 co-editor of the journal Genetics and 1960 President of the Genetics Society of America (GSA ). Crow in 1978 was awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal of the GSA for his life's work.

Crow was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961 ), the National Academy of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society (1966 ), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966 ), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2001) and Honorary Member of the Japan Academy of Sciences. The University of Chicago and the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate. Crow was a leading member of numerous committees, including the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Justice, in particular on issues of genetic risk assessment of ionizing radiation. Crow was chairman of the Department of Genetics at the first United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ( UNSCEAR ).

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