- Hans Grüneberg
Hans Grüneberg, also written as Hans Grueneberg and Hans Gruneberg, (
26 May 1907 -23 October 1982 ) was a British geneticist. He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society in 1956. Most of his work focused on mouse genetics. He was the first person to describe siderocytes and sideroblasts, red blood cells or their precursors that contain visible on thePrussian blue reaction, in a pair of letters to the journal Nature in 1941.Career
* Honorary Research Assistant,
University College, London , 1933-38
* Moseley Research Student of Royal Society, 1938-42
* Captain,Royal Army Medical Corps , 1942-46
* Reader in Genetics, University College, London, 1946-55
* Honorary Director, Medical Research Council Experimental Genetics Research Unit, 1955-72
* Professor of GeneticsUniversity College, London , 1956-1974
* Affiliated with the Department of Pathology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex
* Emeritus ProfessorUniversity College, London from retirement, 1974See also
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Grüneberg ganglion , an olfactory ganglion in rodents first described by Hans Grueneberg in 1973References
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