Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Fred Bodmer FRS FRSE (born 10 January 1936[7]) is a German-born British human geneticist.He was awarded his PhD in 1959 from Cambridge for research on population genetics in the house mouse and Primula vulgaris (primrose) supervised by Ronald Fisher.In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been credited[19] with starting the movement for the public understanding of science.He was joined by Oxford Professor Peter Donnelly (a population genetics and statistics expert) and the Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Lon Cardon.Bodmer has won numerous awards including: His certificate of election to the Royal Society reads:[26] Distinguished for his theoretical and experimental contributions to genetics.
FrankfurtNazi GermanyManchester Grammar SchoolUniversity of CambridgeJulia BodmerRoyal MedalDalton MedalMichael Faraday PrizeEllison–Cliffe LectureKnight BachelorMendel MedalWilliam Allan AwardStanford UniversityUniversity of OxfordThesisRonald FisherMarcus FeldmanPeter GoodfellowVeronica van Heyningenhuman geneticistMathematical TriposClare College, Cambridgepopulation geneticshouse mousePrimula vulgarisJoshua Lederbergpostdoctoral researcherhuman leukocyte antigensomatic cellhybridslinkageRoyal Societypublic understanding of scienceHuman Genome ProjectEllison-Cliffe MedalRoyal Society of Medicinedirector generalImperial Cancer Research FundchancellorUniversity of SalfordSir Martin HarrisprincipalHertford College, OxfordDr. John LandersWellcome TrustPeople of the British IslesPeter DonnellyChannel 4BritainSaxonsVikingsOrkney IslandsGalton Institutecolorectal cancerAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences1974: Fellow of the Royal SocietyNational Academy of SciencesUniversity of BathAmerican Philosophical SocietyFellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghRoyal Institution Christmas LecturesBritish Society for ImmunologyManchesterJulia Bodmer (née Pilkington) 1934–2001Mathematics Genealogy Projectvan Heyningen, VeronicaWho's WhoOxford University PressBibcodeStratton, M. R.ScopusHistory of Modern Biomedicine Research GroupNational Portrait Gallery, LondonThe Duchess of YorkChancellor of the University of SalfordChristopher ZeemanJohn LandersPresidentsRoyal Statistical SocietyThe Marquess of LansdowneSir Charles Lemon, BtThe Earl FitzWilliamViscount SandonLord AshleyThe Lord Monteagle of BrandonThe Earl of HarrowbyThe Lord OverstoneLord StanleyLord John RussellSir John Pakington, BtWilliam Henry SykesThe Lord HoughtonWilliam Ewart GladstoneWilliam NewmarchWilliam FarrWilliam GuyJames HeywoodGeorge Shaw-LefevreThomas BrasseyJames CairdRobert GiffenRawson W. RawsonGeorge GoschenThomas Graham BalfourFrederic J. MouatCharles BoothThe Lord FarrerJohn Biddulph MartinAlfred Edmund BatemanLeonard CourtneyHenry FowlerThe Lord AveburyPatrick George CraigieSir Francis Powell, BtThe Earl of OnslowRichard MartinSir Charles Dilke, BtJervoise Athelstane BainesLord George HamiltonFrancis Ysidro EdgeworthThe Lord WelbyBernard MalletRegistrar GeneralHerbert SamuelR. Henry RewThe Lord Emmott