Antony "Tony" Oliver Ward Stretton is a

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, faculty member of the Neuroscience Training Program, and the John Bascom Professor o
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at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

. He is married to fellow scientist, Philippa Claude, daughter of

Albert Claude Albert Claude (; 24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian- American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education sta ...

. Stretton worked with Vernon M. Ingram first in the

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of the

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then in the

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at the

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as well as with Edward A. Kravitz at the

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. He has also done research at the

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in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Honors and awards

*Distinguished Teaching Awards: Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2007) *Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected publications

*Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1959) "Genetic basis of the thalassaemia diseases", ''Nature'', 184:1903-1909. rossRefMedline] *Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1961) "Human haemoglobin A2: chemistry, genetics and evolution", ''Nature'' 190:1079-1084 *Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. I. Comparisons of haemoglobins A2 and A", ''Biochim. Biophys. Acta'' 62:456-474 *Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. II. The chemistry of some peptides peculiar to haemoglobin A2", ''Biochim. Biophys. Acta'' 63:20-33 *Stretton A.O., Kravitz E.A., (1968)
"Neuronal geometry: determination with a technique of intracellular dye injection"
''Science'', 162: p. 132-4. Science 4 October 1968: Vol. 162. no. 3849, pp. 132 – 134 *Stretton A.O.W. (2002
"The First Sequence: Fred Sanger and Insulin"
''Genetics'', Vol. 162, 527-532, October 2002, *Stretton, A. O. W., Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Cambridge (1960)

Notes

References

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*Ingram V.A. ttp://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/167/1/1 "Sickle-Cell Anemia Hemoglobin: The Molecular Biology of the First "Molecular Disease"—The Crucial Importance of Serendipity" ''Genetics'', Vol. 167, 1-7, May 2004
Ingram, Father of Molecular Medicine, Dies at 82.
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