Ruth Sager
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Gender | Female |
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Date of birth | February 7,1918 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Chicago |
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Died | Brookline |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University |
Known for | genetics |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
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ID | 3485431 |
Ruth Sager Life story
Ruth Sager was an American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientific careers. Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics by discovering transmission of genetic traits through chloroplast DNA, the first known example of genetics not involving the cell nucleus.