Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn - Waelsch ( born October 6, 1907 in Gdansk, † November 7, 2007 in New York) was a German -American geneticist.
Life
Salome Gluecksohn - Waelsch was born in 1907 in Danzig as Salome luck son. She studied chemistry and zoology at Konigsberg and Berlin. In 1928 she went to Hans Spemann at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where she received her doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on the embryonic development of the extremities of Triton. In the same year she married the biochemist Rudolph Schönheimer.
1933 both had to emigrate as Jews in the United States. From 1936 Salome worked at Columbia University, where she remained until 1953. Along with Leslie C. Dunn, she worked on skeletal mutants of the mouse, especially at the Brachyury gene. In these works, she combined her with Spemann acquired embryology tools with the ideas and methods of classical mouse genetics. Since then, she is considered the founder of developmental genetics of mammals.
In 1938 she became an American citizen. After the death Beautifully heimer 1941 she married the neuro chemist Heinrich Waelsch. 1953, she went to the newly founded Albert Einstein College of Medicine ( AECOM ), where they only held a professorship of anatomy, from 1963 to 1976 she was chairman of the Department of Genetics. She retired in 1978, but she continued to work well into old age. Even in the 1990s, she published and participated in scientific conferences, at which sought a new generation of scientists with methods of experimental mouse genetics provide new answers to classic questions of developmental genetics and mutations, such as Brachyury could be molecularly characterized.
She received late wide recognition for their work; In 1979 she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1982, she paid tribute to the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg with the golden promotion, which she accepted reserved, 1993, she received the National Medal of Science from the hand of former President Bill Clinton and in the presence of then Vice - President Al Gore and she was awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 1999. In 1995 she became a member of the Royal Society and an honorary doctorate from Columbia University. She died a month after her hundredth birthday.
2010 awarded the Freiburg Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine ( SGBM ) in collaboration with the Genetics Department of the AECOM at the suggestion of biologists Reski the Salome Gluecksohn - Waelsch prize for the best dissertation.