Ruth Sager
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1918 – 1997
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Who was Ruth Sager?
Ruth Sager was an American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientific careers. Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics by discovering nonchromosomal transmission of genetic traits. The academic community did not acknowledge the significance of her contribution until after the second wave of feminism in the 1970s. Her second career began in the early 1970s and was in cancer genetics; she proposed and investigated the roles of tumor suppressor genes.
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- Born
- Feb 7, 1918
Chicago - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Columbia University
Genetics
( - 1948)
- PhD, Columbia University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
( - 1997/03/29)
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Mar 29, 1997
Brookline
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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