Salomé Glüecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (October 6, 1907 – November 7, 2007) was a Germany, German-born United States, U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics, which investigates the genetic mechanisms of development.Scott Gilbert"Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch" ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia'' Biography Gluecksohn-Waelsch was born in Danzig, Germany to Nadia and Ilya Gluecksohn. She grew up in Germany between World War I and II, where her family faced hardships including her father's death in the 1918 flu pandemic, 1918 influenza epidemic, severe post-war inflation, and intense anti-Semitic sentiment.Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Joy Dorothy Harvey, eds., ''The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century'', 2000. She studied chemistry and zoology in Königsberg and Berlin before she joined Hans Spemann, Spemann's laboratory at the University of Freiburg in 1928. She commented on both S ...
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