Puck, Theodore T. (Theodore Thomas), 1916-2005

Person

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Biography

Dr. Theodore Thomas Puck (1916-2005), the Institute's founding scientist, was a geneticist and a pioneer of somatic cell genetics and single-cell plating (cloning) and later studied the genetic causes of cancer. Puck earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago and served as chairman of the University of Colorado Dept. of Biophysics from 1948 to 1967.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Aspen PAIDEIA Workshop, 1981

Item

Identifier: U158.03.0047.00051

Abstract

Individual portraits of attendees of the August 23-31, 1981 Aspen PAIDEIA Workshop. John Van Doren, Scott Thomson, Mortimer Adler, Roderick MacArthur, Leon Botstein, Charles Van Doren, Adolph Schmidt, Geraldine Van Doren, James O'Toole, Isaak Wirszup, James Nelson, Theodore Puck, Nicholas Caputi, Donald Cowan, Richard Hunt, Alonzo Crim, C.B. Cox, Dennis Gray, Douglass Cater.

Dates: 1981

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / U158, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research Records / Photographs, Portrait and Action / Box 47: Portrait and Action Photographs Larger than 5 x 7 Inches

Conference on Human Development, between 1977 August 3-5

Item

Identifier: U158.03.0047.00067

Abstract

Group meets for outdoor portrait. Theodore Puck back row center.

Dates: between 1977 August 3-5

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Subject: Aspen (Colo.) X