Klaus Patau

Klaus Patau, in the English-speaking Klaus Patau, ( born September 30, 1908 in Gelsenkirchen, † November 30, 1975 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was a German -American geneticist.

Patau in 1936 his PhD at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. Using a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he went in 1938 for one year at the John Innes Horticultural Institution in Merton Park, Surrey. From 1939 he was assistant to Max Hartmann's department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin- Dahlem. After the Second World War he was assistant from 1946 to Hans Nachtsheim at the Institute of Genetics at the University of Berlin. Finally, he moved in 1948 after a six -month stay at the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh in the United States, where he taught until his death at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Klaus Patau examined the genes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In 1960 he first described it was later named after him Patau syndrome as a result of trisomy of human chromosome 13 or of parts.

• Geneticist
• University teachers ( University of Wisconsin -Madison )
• Americans
• German
• Born in 1908
• Died in 1975
• Man