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Gillham, Nicholas Wright was born on May 14, 1932 in New York City. Son of Robert Marty and Elizabeth (Enright) Gillham.
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics By Gillham, Nicholas Wright ( Author ) Hardcover 2001
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics 1st edition by Gillham, Nicholas Wright (2001) Hardcover
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Organelle Genes and Genomes
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Here is an exhaustive exploration of all aspects of research on organelle genomes. This outstanding new volume reviews the properties of chloroplast and mitorchondrial genomes, describing in depth their structure, gene content, expression, evolution, and genetics. The book takes readers to the outer limits of contemporary research, showing how the study of genomes contributes to the solution of important problems in molecular biology. It covers a wide range of problems from the use of organelle DNA molecules in taxonomic and phylogenetic studies to molecular investigations of the mechanisms underlying RNA editing, intron splicing and mobility, protein import, and mitochondrial disease. This unique text is designed for an introductory course in organelle genetics at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. It is of special interest to professionals in the fields of molecular and cell biology, genetics, and evolution.
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics
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Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath. The book traces Galton's ancestry (he was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin and the cousin of Charles Darwin), upbringing, training as a medical apprentice, and experience as a Cambridge undergraduate. It recounts in colorful detail Galton's adventures as leader of his own expedition in Namibia. Darwin was always a strong influence on his cousin and a turning point in Galton's life was the publication of the Origin of Species. Thereafter, Galton devoted most of his life to human heredity, using then novel methods such as pedigree analysis and twin studies to argue that talent and character were inherited and that humans could be selectively bred to enhance these qualities. To this end, he founded the eugenics movement which rapidly gained momentum early in the last century. After Galton's death, however, eugenics took a more sinister path, as in the United States, where by 1913 sixteen states had involuntary sterilization laws, and in Germany, where the goal of racial purity was pushed to its horrific limit in the "final solution." Galton himself, Gillham writes, would have been appalled by the extremes to which eugenics was carried. Here then is a vibrant biography of a remarkable scientist as well as a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era.
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Nicholas Wright Gillham
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Nicholas Wright Gillham, American geneticist, educator. Postdoctoral fellow United States Public Health Service, 1962-1963 Special fellow, 1967-1968; Research Career Development grant United States Public Health Service, 1972-1977; Guggenheim fellow, 1984-1985. Served to 1st lieutenant Medical Service Corps United States Air Force, 1955-1958. Member Genetics Society of America, Sigma Xi.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard, 1954. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy (United States Public Health Service fellow), Harvard, 1962.
Career
From instructor to assistant professor Harvard University, 1963-1968. Associate professor zoology Duke University, 1968-1972, professor, 1973-1982, James B. Duke professor biology, 1982—2002, chairman department zoology, 1986—1989, professional emeritus, since 2002. Member biochemistry, molecular genetics and cell biology interdisciplinary cluster President's biomedical Research Panel, 1975.
Member study section in genetics National Institutes of Health, 1976-1980. Member North Carolina Governor's Board Science and Technology, North Carolina Governor's Task Force on Science and Technology, chairman, board directors American Type Culture Collection, 1993-1996.
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics
(Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many...)
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Organelle Genes and Genomes
(Here is an exhaustive exploration of all aspects of resea...)
- Organelle Heredity
- A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics By Gillham, Nicholas Wright ( Author ) Hardcover 2001
- A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics 1st edition by Gillham, Nicholas Wright (2001) Hardcover
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics
Membership
Served to First lieutenant Medical Service Corps United States Air Force, 1955-1958. Member Genetics Society American, Sigma Xi.
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Married Carol Lenore Collins, June 2, 1956.
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Postdoctoral fellow United States Public Health Service, 1962-1963 Special fellow, 1967-1968. Research Career Development grant United States Public Health Service, 1972-1977. Guggenheim fellow, 1984-1985.Postdoctoral fellow United States Public Health Service, 1962-1963 Special fellow, 1967-1968. Research Career Development grant United States Public Health Service, 1972-1977. Guggenheim fellow, 1984-1985.