Citizenship US Name Clyde Keeler | ||
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Born April 11, 1900Marion, Ohio ( 1900-04-11 ) Institutions Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Edgewood School in Connecticut, Woman's College in North Carolina, Wesleyan College, Georgia State College for Women, Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, Georgia) Thesis Rodless retinae: studies on an ophthalmic mutation in the house mouse. (1926) Died April 22, 1994, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books The laboratory mouse, Secrets of the Cuna Earthmot, Land of the Moon‑Children: The Primi, Cuna Indian art | ||
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship Education Harvard University (1926) Resting place Memory Hill Cemetery | ||
Clyde Edgar Keeler, April 11, 1900 – April 22, 1994, was a medical geneticist who is noted for his work on laboratory mice and the genetics of vision. His work was instrumental in the understanding of retinitis pigmentosa. He also seems to have published the first scientific paper on non-rod non-cone visual sensation.
Short biographies may be found at the web site of Georgia College, which keeps the Clyde E. Keeler collection, and at the Guggenheim Foundation, where he was made a Fellow in 1938. His daughter, Irmgard Keeler Howard, wrote a three-page obituary for The Journal of Heredity and he self-published an autobiography, The Gene Hunter.
If I went into medicine, I might save the lives of two hundred or more persons, but if I went into research and was fortunate enough to make a biomedical discovery of lasting value, I would affect the knowledge of many physicians and through them I might help to save the lives of thousands as yet unborn. So I went into my career with my eyes open.