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 1 Collection or Record:

Correspondence - Committee on Physiologic Aging and Radiation Life Shortening, 1959-1961, 1959-1961

File

Identifier: U158.04.0051.0011

Abstract

Contains correspondence between members of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, primarily Dr. Theodore Puck, and other individuals or companies. Includes correspondence related to business practices and experimentation results and progress, publications when exchanged for review, newspaper articles, photographs, cards, and occasionally patient information when related to research.

Dates: 1959-1961

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / U158, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research Records / Correspondence, 1948-1976 / Box 51: Commission on Environmental Studies, 1965-1970 (2 of 2) - Damon Runyan Memorial Fund, 1955-1971 (2 of 2)

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