201 3 Curt Stern Award Introduction: John Moran

摘要

It is a great honor and a distinct pleasure to introduce the 2013 recipient of the Curt Stern Award, my good friend John Moran. This award honors the memory of Curt Stern as a pioneering human geneticist and is presented annually for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics over the past 10 years.Stern was a leading Drosophila geneticist trained by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who was first to demonstrate crossing-over in homologous chromosomes in the fruit fly. He taught first at the University of Rochester and then at the University of California, Berkeley. After World War II, he turned to human genetics and in 1949 published a renowned textbook of human genetics. I first attended The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting in 1971, and I remember when Curt Stern received the William Allan Award in 1974. It was a grand occasion honoring a pioneer in our field.