Leo Sachs

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Leo Sachs (born 1924) is a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he immigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he founded the Department of Genetics.

In 1980 Sachs became the first Israeli scientist to win the Wolf Prize – for his "contributions to knowledge of the function and disfunction of the body cells through [his] studies on ... the elucidation of mechanisms governing the control and differentiation of normal and cancer cells". Other honors have included the Israel Prize (1972), and election as Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences (1995).

Sachs is 6'8'' (2.03m).

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