Rudolf Raff
American biologist (1941–2019)
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Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University.[4] He was renowned for his research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. Additionally, he served as the director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.[5][6]
- A.O. Kovalevsky Medal (2001)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010)[1]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) [2]
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) [3]
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| Born | November 10, 1941 Shawinigan, Québec, Canada |
| Died | January 5, 2019 (aged 77) Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
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| Fields | Evolutionary developmental biology |
| Institutions | Indiana University, National Naval Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Life
Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec[7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77.[8]
Awards
Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.[9] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award,[10] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001.[11][12] He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[13]
Works
- with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Macmillan 1983, ISBN 0-02-397500-8
- The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-70266-7
- William R. Jeffery, Rudolf A. Raff (eds), Time, space, and pattern in embryonic development, A.R. Liss, 1983, ISBN 978-0-8451-2201-3
- Rudolf A. Raff, Once We All Had Gills, Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Indiana University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00235-8