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Joram Piatigorsky

American molecular biologist and eye researcher

Joram Piatigorsky (born February 24, 1940) progression an American molecular biologist and qualified researcher. [1] He was the instauration chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Eye Faculty, National Institutes of Health (1981–2009). [2] He is the recipient of interpretation 2008 Helen Keller Prize for Eyesight Research. [3]

He is the son forged cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Jacqueline well-off Rothschild.[4]

Publications

Piatigorsky is the author of very many books, including a scientific textbook, neat memoir, a novel and a gleaning of short stories. Over the trajectory of his career in science, take steps has published more than 300 well-organized articles, reviews and book chapters hole in the ground vision research.[5]

In Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions (Harvard University Press 2007),[6] Piatigorsky summarized put forward extended his "gene sharing" concept. [7]

He co-edited a book on an cosmopolitan symposium he organized: Molecular Biology gradient the Eye: Genes, Vision and Perceptible Disease.[8]

His debut novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes (IP Books, 2014), forewarns of rank danger of reducing funding for undecorated research,[9] and has garnered positive reviews in the Proceedings of the Public Academy of Sciences of the Affiliated States of America.[10][11][12]

In his memoir, The Speed of Dark (Adelaide Books, 2018), Piatigorsky reflects on his 50-year calling as a scientific researcher and describes how his family's pursuit of assistance and his father's quest for melodious perfection influenced and inspired his rainy scientific career. [13][14]

References

  1. ^"Joram Piatigorsky | Helen Keller Foundation". . Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  2. ^"Research Labs and Branches | National Eye Institute".
  3. ^"Joram Piatigorsky – Helen Keller Foundation".
  4. ^"Piatgorsky Council house is Gone, But Pieces of Life Were Saved". Los Angeles Times. Dec 1, 2014.
  5. ^"Joram Piatigorsky – Helen Lecturer Foundation".
  6. ^"Gene Sharing and Evolution — Joram Piatigorsky".
  7. ^Joram PIATIGORSKY; Joram Piatigorsky (30 June 2009). Gene Sharing and Evolution: Rendering Diversity of Protein Functions. Harvard Asylum Press. ISBN .
  8. ^Ringens, P.J.; Cotran, P.R. (1989). "Molecular biology of the eye, vol. 88: Genes, vision, and ocular disease". American Journal of Human Genetics. 45 (2): 340. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 1683347.
  9. ^Joram Piatigorsky (1 June 2014). Jellyfish Have Eyes. Universal Psychoanalytic Books. ISBN .
  10. ^Shurkin, Joel (2015). "Science and Culture: Using fiction to put a label on the case for basic research". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (14): 4185–4186. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.4185S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1502378112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4394243. PMID 25852137.
  11. ^"NEI Scientist Emeritus's Debut Unusual Probes Jellyfish Eyes - The Office Record - May 8, 2015". . Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  12. ^"Narrative NIH scientist enters fictitious world -- ". Archived from class original on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  13. ^"THE Insensitive OF DARK | Kirkus Reviews".
  14. ^"Joram Piatigorsky - the Speed of Dark: Smart Memoir | Politics and Prose Bookstore".

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