Douglas Scott Falconer
Douglas Scott Falconer FRS FRSE | |
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| Born | 10 March 1913 Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Died | 23 February 2004 (aged 90) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Education | University of St Andrews; University of Cambridge, Ph.D. 1943 (Honorary Sc.D., 1969) |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews King's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Falconer's formula; his book Introduction to quantitative genetics |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society, 1973 |
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| Fields | Quantitative genetics Genetic epidemiology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | James Gray |
Douglas Scott Falconer
Falconer graduated with first class honors in zoology from the University of St Andrews in 1940. He then received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1943. He eventually got an honorary ScD from Cambridge in 1969.[4][5]
In 1951, Falconer described a novel mouse mutant that he called
In 1964, he introduced the use of liability threshold models into human disease & trait modeling.[7][8]
In 1973, he was announced as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).[9]
See also
References
- .
- PMID 15241449.
- PMID 15342495.
- ^ "Douglas Falconer". www.scotsman.com. 9 April 2004. Archived from the original on 26 June 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Kennedy".
- S2CID 37918631.
- ^ "The inheritance of liability to certain diseases, estimated from the incidence among relatives" Archived 15 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Falconer 1965
- ^ "The inheritance of liability to diseases with variable age of onset, with particular reference to diabetes mellitus" Archived 15 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Falconer 1967
- The Glasgow Herald. 16 March 1973. p. 28. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
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