Rudolf Raff
Appearance
Rudolf A. Raff (born 1942 in Shawinigan[1]) is an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University.[2] He is known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He is also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.[3]
Life
Raff graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967.
Awards
Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.[4] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award,[5] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6]
Works
- with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Macmillan 1983, ISBN 0-02-397500-8
- The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-70266-7
- William R. Jeffery, Rudolf A. Raff (eds), Time, space, and pattern in embryonic development, A.R. Liss, 1983, ISBN 978-0-8451-2201-3
- Rudolf A. Raff, Once We All Had Gills, Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Indiana University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00235-8
References
- ^ https://www.bio.indiana.edu/documents/historical-materials/Raff_Rudolf_retirement_tribute_2017.pdf
- ^ http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=raffr
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/raff.html
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/11919-rudolf-a-raff
- ^ The American Naturalist, Vol. 165, No. 1 (January 2005), p. i
- ^ http://www.bio.indiana.edu/alumni/newsletters/11Summer/faculty.shtml