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Nationality
  
American

Spouse
  
Leonore Herzenberg

Fields
  
Immunology, genetics

Known for
  
Flow cytometry

Children
  
Jana Herzen

Name
  
Leonard Herzenberg


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Born
  
Leonard Arthur HerzenbergNovember 5, 1931New York City, New York (
1931-11-05
)

Institutions
  
Stanford UniversityPasteur Institute

Alma mater
  
Brooklyn CollegeCalifornia Institute of Technology

Thesis
  
Studies on a Cytochrome Destroying System in Neurospora (1956)

Died
  
October 27, 2013, Stanford, California, United States

Education
  
Pasteur Institute (1957), California Institute of Technology (1955), Brooklyn College (1952)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Doctoral advisor
  
Herschel K. Mitchell

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Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg (November 5, 1931 – October 27, 2013) was an immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University. His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their specific properties.

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Education

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Herzenberg was born in New York City, U.S.A.. He received his bachelor's degree in 1952 from Brooklyn College in biology and chemistry. In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in biochemistry with a specialization in immunology for studies on cytochrome in Neurospora.

Career

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After school he was a postdoctoral fellow at the American Cancer Society, working in France at the Pasteur Institute. He returned to the United States in 1957 and worked for the National Institutes of Health as an officer in the Public Health Service department. He started working at Stanford in 1959. He eventually earned the title Professor of Genetics.

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In 1970 Herzenberg developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) which revolutionized immunology and cancer biology, and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells.

Personal life

Herzenberg and his wife, Leonore Herzenberg, ran the Herzenberg Laboratory at Stanford together until his death. Their daughter, Jana Herzen, is a singer-songwriter and the founder of Motéma Music. He died on October 27, 2013 aged 81.

Awards and honours

Herzenberg received a range of honours and awards during his life including:

  • the ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies, in 2013;
  • the Lifetime Service Award, American Association of Immunologists, in 1998;
  • the Edwin F. Ullman Award, American Association of Clinical Chemistry, in 2002;
  • the Novartis Immunology Prize, in 2004;
  • the Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology, American Society for Microbiology, in 2005; and
  • the 2006 Kyoto award for his work in cell biology;
  • the Ceppellini Award, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Medicine, in 2007, with his wife Lee Herzenberg for "their internationally recognized contributions to medicine."

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    Leonard Herzenberg Wikipedia
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