Background
Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany.
Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany.
He obtained an Doctor of Medicine from the University of Bonn, a Doctor of Philosophy in biology from the University of Berlin and a Doctor of Science from the University of London.
He arrived in London in 1933, at the invitation of J.B.S. Haldane and Sir Henry Dale. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956. Most of his work focused on mouse genetics, in which his speciality was the study of pleiotropic effects of mutations on the development of the mouse skeleton.
He was the first person to describe siderocytes and sideroblasts, atypical nucleated erythrocytes with granules of iron accumulated in perinuclear mitochondria.
This he reported in the journal Nature. The Grüneberg ganglion, an olfactory ganglion in rodents, was first described by Hans Grueneberg in 1973.
Honorary Research Assistant, University College London, 1933-1938
Moseley Research Student of Royal Society, 1938-1942
Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1942-1946
Reader in Genetics, University College London, 1946-1955
Honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Experimental Genetics Unit at University College London, 1955–1972
Professor of Genetics University College London, 1956–1974
Affiliated with the Department of Pathology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex
Emeritus Professor University College London, from retirement, 1974.
Royal Society.