Bruce Wallace

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Bruce Wallace (born May 18, 1920 in McKean , Pennsylvania , † 2015 ) was an American biologist , geneticist and university professor .

Life

Bruce Wallace, son of George E. Wallace and his wife Rose Paterson Wallace, first completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia College after attending school , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree. A subsequent post-graduate studies of biology at Columbia University , he graduated with a Master's from. Between 1949 and 1958, he was deputy director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a research center based in Cold Spring Harbor with a focus on cancer research , neurobiology , plant genetics , genomics and bioinformatics , including for the Watson School of Biological Sciences operates a graduate program.

After Wallace was associate professor at Cornell University between 1958 and 1951 , he became a professor of genetics there in 1961 and taught until 1981. In 1971 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1970 of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1981 he became professor of biology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . He had been married to Miriam Covalla since 1945.

Publications

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Bruce Wallace wrote numerous textbooks on adaptive radiation , evolution , genetics , population genetics and sociobiology . His works include:

  • Radiation, genes, and man , Holt, New York 1959
  • Adaptation , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1961
  • Population genetics , Heath, Boston 1964
  • Chromosomes, giant molecules, and evolution , Norton, New York 1966
  • Topics in population genetics , WW Norton, New York 1968
  • Genetic load, its biological and conceptual aspects , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1970, ISBN 0-1335-1197-9
  • Essays in social biology , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1972, ISBN 0-1365-6835-1
  • Genetics Evolution Race Radiation Biology. Essays In Social Biology Volume II , Prentice Hall 1972, ISBN 0-1335-1155-3
  • Essays In Social Biology Volume III , Prentice Hall Press, 1972, ISBN 0-1321-6226-1
  • Instructor GDE - Bio Living , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8018-3497-X
  • Biology for living , co-author George M. Simmons, Jr., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1987, ISBN 0-8018-3221-7
  • Fifty years of genetic load. To odyssey , Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1991, ISBN 0-8014-2583-2
  • The search for the gene , Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1992, ISBN 0-8014-2680-4
  • The study of gene action , co-authored by Joseph O. Falkinham III., Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1997, ISBN 0-8014-3265-0
  • The environment , Elkhorn Press, Elkhorn 1998, ISBN 1-8890-7407-1
  • The environment 2. As I see it, the mold must be broken , Elkhorn Press, Elkhorn 1998, ISBN 1-8890-7408-X
in German language
  • Life and survival. The adaptation of the organisms , (Original title: Adaption ), Franckh, Stuttgart 1966
  • The genetic burden. Their biological and theoretical significance , (original title: Genetic load, its biological and conceptual aspects ), VEB Fischer Verlag, Jena 1974

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH McKean , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 2015