Rudy Raff | |
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Born |
Shawinigan, Québec, Canada | November 10, 1941
Died | January 5, 2019
Bloomington, Indiana, United States | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Evolutionary developmental biology |
Institutions | Indiana University, National Naval Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University. [4] He was known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He was also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute. [5] [6]
Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec [7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77. [8]
Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow. [9] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award, [10] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001. [11] [12] He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [13]