Puck, Theodore T. (Theodore Thomas), 1916-2005
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.
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Aspen PAIDEIA Workshop, 1981
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.