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Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (October 6, 1907 – November 7, 2007) was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics,〔Solter D. ''In Memoriam: Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007).'' Developmental Cell 2008; Vol.14 Issue 1:22-24. ()〕 which investigates the genetic mechanisms of development.〔Scott Gilbert, ("Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch" ), ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''〕 ==Biography== Gluecksohn-Waelsch was born in Danzig, Germany to Nadia and Ilya Gluecksohn. She grew up in Germany between World War I and II, where her family faced hardships including her father's death in the 1918 influenza epidemic, severe post-war inflation, and intense anti-Semitic sentiment.〔〔The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Eds: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey. 2000.〕 She studied chemistry and zoology in Königsberg and Berlin before she joined Spemann's laboratory at the University of Freiburg in 1928. She commented on both Spemann's nationalist tendencies and prejudice against women scientists; prejudices she faced as a Jewish woman limited her career options in Germany.〔〔 In 1932 she received her doctorate for her work on the embryological limb development of aquatic salamanders.〔Glücksohn, S.: ''Äußere Entwicklung der Extremitäten und Stadieneinteilung der Larvenperiode von Triton taeniatus Leyd. und von Triton cristatus Laur.'' Wilhelm Roux' Archiv f. Entwicklungsmechanik d. Organismen. Bd. 125, S. 341-405〕 In the same year she married the biochemist Rudolph Schönheimer, with whom she escaped from Nazi Germany in 1933.〔 She went on to become a lecturer at Columbia University in 1936, bringing embryological acumen to Leslie C. Dunn's genetics laboratory, where she remained for 17 years.〔 Gluecksohn-Waelsch attempted to find mutations that affected early development and discover the processes that these genes affected. In 1938, she acquired US citizenship, and after Schönheimer´s death in 1941 she married the neurochemist Heinrich Waelsch in 1943, with whom she had two children.〔 Columbia University's policies would not allow her a faculty position, even after many productive years of research.〔 She left Columbia University in 1953 to commence a professorship in anatomy at the newly founded Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), where she became a full professor in 1958 and held the chair of molecular genetics from 1963 to 1976.〔 She received emeritus status in 1978, but continued researching actively for many more years, publishing and participating in scientific conferences until the 1990s. She died a month after her 100th birthday in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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