Boris Ephrussi
Boris Ephrussi | |
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Born | T.H. Morgan | May 9, 1901
Doctoral students | Piotr Słonimski |
Boris Ephrussi (Russian: Борис Самойлович Эфрусси; 9 May 1901 – 2 May 1979), Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo-French geneticist.
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Ephrussi was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958),[8] the United States National Academy of Sciences (1961),[9] and the American Philosophical Society in 1970.[10]
Ephrussi continued to work on the topics he was primarily interested until the late 1970s. Topics covered included
- using hybrids with teratomas to explore determination and differentiation (e.g. Finch and Ephrussi 1967; Kahan and Ephrussi 1970).
- negative regulation of differentiated function (e.g. Davidson, Ephrussi and Yamamoto 1966; Fougbre, Ruiz and Ephrussi 1972).
- cellular and genetic biological approaches over a direct attack at the molecular level (Ephrussi 1970, p. 12).
In 1974 Ephrussi won a Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Ephrussi lived to see that transplantation was transforming into a genetic tool that would take on a new and more powerful aspect in the molecular era. However he died before seeing the genetic advances made by DNA recombination studies which had been set in motion by the studies he had undertaken. It can be said that Ephrussi was a pioneer of embryology and a main contributor to the reconciliation of modern genetics and Embryology.
He was married to Harriett Ephrussi-Taylor (1918–1968), a geneticist. His daughter, Anne Ephrussi, is a geneticist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
References
- ^ Burian R. 1990. Boris Ephrussi and the Foundations of Developmental Genetics. In Gilbert S. (ed) Developmental Biology, New York, Plenum.
- ^ Sapp J. 1987. Beyond the gene: cytoplasmic inheritance and the struggle for authority in genetics. New York, Oxford University Press.
- ^ Ephrussi B. 1939. Génétique physiologique. Paris, Hermann.
- ^ Ephrussi B. 1953. Nucleo-cytoplasmic relations in micro-organisms: their bearing on cell heredity and differentiation. Oxford.
- ^ Lindegren, Carl C. (1967). The Cold War in Biology. Planarian Press.
- PMC 2591340.
- ^ Ephrussi B. 1953. Nucleo-cytoplasmic relations in micro-organisms: their bearing on cell heredity and differentiation. Oxford. page vi. Ephrussi took the words from Joseph Henry Woodger (Symp. Soc. Expl. Biol 2: 354 (1948)) who wrote, "Admittedly, some hypotheses have become so well established that no one doubts them. But this does not mean that they are known to be true. We cannot determine the truth of a hypothesis by counting the number of people who believe it, and a hypothesis does not cease to be a hypothesis when a lot of people believe it."
- ^ "Boris Ephrussi". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ "Boris Ephrussi". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ "Boris Ephrussi". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
^ see Ephrussi 1935a