Rudolf Raff

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Rudolf A. Raff is an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University.[1] He is known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He is also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.[2]

Life

He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967.

Awards

He was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.[3] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award.[4] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5]

Works

  • with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Macmillan 1983, ISBN 0-02-397500-8
  • The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-70266-7
  • William R. Jeffery, Rudolf A. Raff (eds), Time, space, and pattern in embryonic development, A.R. Liss, 1983, ISBN 978-0-8451-2201-3
  • Rudolf A. Raff, Once We All Had Gills, Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Indiana University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00235-8

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