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Puck, Theodore T. (Theodore Thomas), 1916-2005

 Person

Biography

Dr. Theodore Thomas Puck (1916-2005), the Institute's founding scientist, was a geneticist and a pioneer of somatic cell genetics and single-cell plating (cloning) and later studied the genetic causes of cancer. Puck earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago and served as chairman of the University of Colorado Dept. of Biophysics from 1948 to 1967.

Found in 1733 Collections and/or Records:

Dr Nicholas Matwiyoff, 1986-1992

 File
Identifier: U158.01.0035.0017
Abstract

Contains correspondence between members of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, primarily Dr. Theodore Puck, and other individuals or companies. Includes correspondence related to business practices and experimentation results and progress, publications when exchanged for review, newspaper articles, photographs, cards, and occasionally patient information when related to research.

Dates: 1986-1992

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Archival Object 1732
Collection 1
 
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Cytogenetics 1292
Cancer 1291
Medicine 1291
Research institutes 1291
Colorado 58