IN MEMORIAM Theodore T. Puck (September 24, 1916-November 6, 2005)

摘要

It is impossible to write a comprehensive obituary of Ted Puck in less than a dozen pages. He was truly a scientist with manifold interests, which included the use of mammalian cell cultures to do quantitative genetic analysis, to determine mutation frequencies, for radio-biology and DNA repair studies, and, finally, to confirm the correct chromosome number of man. Given the limitations of space and my own interests as a cytogeneticist, I have chosen to concentrate on Ted's interest in the correct number of chromosomes in a normal human cell. Fortunately for me, Ted wrote a wonderful article in the American Journal of Medical Genetics in the section "Living History Biography" (Puck 1994). In this autobiography, Ted Puck summarized the many challenges and successes of his academic and scientific career; I urge everyone who reads this perspective to go to the original!#