Hans Gruneberg 4444283 210253187 2008-05-05T04:24:41Z Good Olfactory 6454287 Removed category "Refugees" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) '''Hans Grüneberg''' ([[26 May]] [[1907]]-[[23 October]] [[1982]]) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[genetics|geneticist]]. He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal 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 the [[Prussian blue]] reaction, in a pair of letters to the journal [[Nature (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 Genetics [[University College, London]], 1956-1974 * Affiliated with the Department of Pathology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex * Emeritus Professor [[University College, London]] from retirement, 1974 == References == * [[who's Who (UK)|Who was Who]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Grüneberg, Hans}} [[Category:1907 births]] [[Category:1982 deaths]] [[Category:British geneticists]] [[Category:British biologists]] [[Category:Royal Army Medical Corps officers]] [[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:British Jews]] [[Category:Jewish scientists]] [[Category:People associated with University College London]] {{Biologist-stub}} {{UK-scientist-stub}}