Up for auction a RARE! "Molecular Genetics" Hewson Swift Signed TLS Dated 1971. This item is certified authentic by Todd
Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Hewson H. Swift, Ph.D., the
George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor
Emeritus in the Departments of Molecular
Genetics & Cell Biology and Pathology, Former Chair of the Department of
Biology, and a member of the Committees on Genetics and on Developmental
Biology at the University of Chicago, died at the University of Chicago
Hospitals on January 1,2004. He was 83. Dr. Swift was an
internationally known expert on electron microscopy, chromosome structure and
function and the use of DNA to study evolutionary relationships. He was a
co-founder of the American Society for Cell Biology, and helped launch the
Journal of Cell Biology, which became the Society�s official journal.
Among other honors, Dr. Swift was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.