✍ Scribed by S. Berry
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man has been removed from the triumvirate that formed the Committee on Mouse Genetics Nomenclature and, in 1940, published the first rules for gene designation. With L. C. Dunn and G. D. Snell, Hans Grfineberg provided a frame for the massive growth of mouse genetics in recent years. Hans Griineberg was born of Jewish parents in Wuppertal-Elberfield in 1907. He studied medicine in Bonn and biology in Berlin, earning his MD and PhD. At the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, one of the most important European centers for the new subject of genetics, he was a student of Hans Nachtsheim, one of the firstgeneration animal geneticists in Germany. While in Berlin, Grfineberg was invited to University College London by J.B.S. Haldane who was working for the Academic Assistance Council to help Jewish scientists to escape from Hitler's Germany. Grtineberg took up a post in London in 1936, and apart from a brief period of internment followed by service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War, worked there until a few days before his death. He was made Professor of Genetics in 1956, the same year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After his retirement in 1974, he forsook mice and spent his last years studying two polymorphic tropical molluscs (Clithon and Umbonium).
Grtineberg served on many national and international committees concerned with animal genetics. He was a member of the Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature in Mice, formed after discussion at the eighth Genetics Congress in
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