Walter Bodmer
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| Born | Walter Fred Bodmer 10 January 1936 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The study of population genetics and gene effects, with special reference to Primula vulgaris and the house mouse (1959) |
| Academic advisors | Ronald Fisher |
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| Influenced | Tomas Lindahl |
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| Spouse | Julia Bodmer (m. 1956; d. 2001) |
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Sir Walter Fred Bodmer FRS (born 10 January 1936 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German-born British human geneticist.
Bodmer was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge as a student of Clare College, Cambridge. He was awarded his PhD in 1959 from Cambridge for research on population genetics in the house mouse and Primula vulgaris (primrose) supervised by Ronald Fisher.
In 1961 Bodmer joined Joshua Lederberg's laboratory in the Genetics Department of Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher, continuing his work on population genetics. In 1962 Walter Bodmer was appointed to the faculty at Stanford. He left Stanford University in 1970 to become the first Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford [1].
Bodmer developed models for population genetics and worked on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies. In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been credited with starting the movement for the public understanding of science.
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