Thomas F. Anderson

Who was Thomas F. Anderson?

Thomas Foxen Anderson was a biophysical chemist and geneticist who developed techniques for using electron microscopes. Dr. Anderson pioneered use of the electron microscope to study viruses. His research produced insights of how viruses infect cells, methods of their reproduction and how they alter the cells they infect. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964. Anderson was president of the International Federation of Electron Microscope Societies, president of the Biophysical Society, chairman of the United States National Committee of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics, and chairman of the Genetics Section of the National Academy of Sciences.