Background
Herzenberg was born in New York City, United States.A.
biochemist geneticist immunologist university professor
Herzenberg was born in New York City, United States.A.
Herzenberg was born in New York City, United States.A. He received his bachelor"s degree in 1952 from Brooklyn College in biology and chemistry. In 1955, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from in biochemistry with a specialization in immunology for studies on cytochrome in Neurospora.
His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their specific properties. After school he was a postdoctoral fellow at the American Cancer Society, working in France at the Pasteur Institute. He returned to the United States in 1957 and worked for the National Institutes of Health as an officer in the Public Health Service department.
He started working at Stanford in 1959.
He eventually earned the title Professor of Genetics. In 1970 Herzenberg developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) which revolutionized immunology and cancer biology, and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells.
National Academy of Sciences.