Leonard Herzenberg

Leonard Arthur " Len " Herzenberg ( born November 5, 1931 in New York City; † October 27, 2013 in Stanford, California ) was an American biochemist, geneticist and immunologist. He was a professor at Stanford University. He is known for the invention ( 1970) of a method of flow cytometry ( FACS, fluorescence activated cell sorting), can be sorted with the labeled cells at a rapid pace.

Herzberg studied biology and chemistry at Brooklyn College with a bachelor 's degree in 1952 and received his doctorate in 1955 in biochemistry and immunology at Caltech. As a post - graduate student, he was a fellow of the American Cancer Foundation at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and from 1957 he conducted research at the National Institutes of Health. From 1959 he was at Stanford University, where he became professor of genetics. He headed there with his wife Leonore " Lee" Herzberg own laboratory.

He also conducted research on microchimerism and found 1979 male blood cells in the blood of pregnant women with boys. He brought after a stay with Cesar Milstein hybridoma technique early in the U.S. and developed monoclonal antibodies in his laboratory.

In 2006 he received the Kyoto Prize.

His daughter Jana heart is singer-songwriter and founder of Motéma Records.