Rudolf Raff

Rudy Raff
Raff in 2011
Born	(1941-11-10)November 10, 1941 Shawinigan, Québec, Canada
Died	January 5, 2019(2019-01-05) (aged 77) Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University Duke University
Awards	A.O. Kovalevsky Medal (2001) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010)[1] Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) [2] Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) [3]
Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary developmental biology
Institutions	Indiana University, National Naval Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University.[4] He was renowned for his research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. Additionally, he served as the director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.[5][6]

Life

Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec[7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77.[8]

Awards

Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.[9] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award,[10] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001.[11][12] He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[13]

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

References

1. "Historic Fellows".
2. "Rudolf A. Raff | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". 9 February 2023.
3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rudolf A. Raff".
4. "Faculty Profile : Department of Biology : Indiana University Bloomington". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
5. "Rudolf A. Raff". Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
6. Akst, Jef (Jan 9, 2019). "Leader of Evo-Devo Field, Rudy Raff, Dies". The Scientist.
7. https://www.bio.indiana.edu/documents/historical-materials/Raff_Rudolf_retirement_tribute_2017.pdf ^[bare URL PDF]
8. "Rudolf "Rudy" Albert Raff". Dignity Memorial.
9. "Rudolf A. Raff - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-11-12. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
10. McPeek, Mark (2005). "2004 Sewall Wright Award: Rudolf A. Raff". The American Naturalist. 165 (1): i. doi:10.1086/427345. S2CID 82016600.
11. Lewis, Ricki (May 13, 2002). "Rudolf Raff". The Scientist.
12. Mikhailov, AT; Gilbert, SF (2002). "From development to evolution: the re-establishment of the "Alexander Kowalevsky Medal"". The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 46 (5): 693–8. PMID 12216980.
13. "Five faculty honored : Department of Biology : Indiana University Bloomington". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2011-10-29.

External links

• http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/rudolf-raff

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