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Raff
Raff is a surname of German, English or Old Norse origin. Notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Alexander Raff (1820–1914), Australian politician * Charles Raff (1878-1948), Australian footballer * Edson Raff (1907-2003), American army officer * George Raff (1815-1889), Scottish merchant * Gerhard Raff (born 1946), German historian * Gideon Raff (born 1972), Israeli director * Hans Raff (1910-1990), German runner * Jennifer Raff (* 1979), American anthropologist * Joachim Raff (1822-1882), Swiss composer * Martin Raff (born 1938), Canadian biologist * Pam Raff (1952-2009), British American dancer * Rudolf Raff (1942-2019), American biologist See also * Riff Raff (other), Riff Raff {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Raff
Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University. 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. Life Raff was born in Shawinigan, Shawnigan, Quebec 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. Awards Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow. He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award, and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Works * with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, ''Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change'', Macmillan 1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |