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American biologist (1941–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University.[4] He was renowned for his research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. Additionally, he served as the director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.[5][6]
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Born | Shawinigan, Québec, Canada | November 10, 1941
Died | January 5, 2019 77) Bloomington, Indiana, United States | (aged
Nationality | American |
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Fields | Evolutionary developmental biology |
Institutions | Indiana University, National Naval Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec[7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77.[8]
Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.[9] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award,[10] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001.[11][12] He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[13]
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