George Streisinger was an American molecular biologist and co-founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon.
13 Facts About George Streisinger
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George Streisinger was the first person to clone a vertebrate, cloning zebrafish in his University of Oregon laboratory.
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George Streisinger pioneered work in the genetics of the T-even bacterial viruses.
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George Streisinger was born in Budapest, Hungary, on December 27,1927.
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George Streisinger attended New York public schools and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1944.
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George Streisinger completed postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology from 1953 to 1956.
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George Streisinger accepted a post at the University of Oregon Institute of Molecular Biology in Eugene in 1960.
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George Streisinger was well known as an innovative professor in and out of the classroom, conscripting a dance class to illustrate protein synthesis, and often requested beginning and non-major biology students.
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George Streisinger was very politically active, organizing grass-roots resistance to the Vietnam war and legislative opposition to John Kennedy's civil defense program.
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George Streisinger testified to successfully ban mutagenic herbicides in Douglas fir reforestation, and led and won a battle to exclude secret war department research from the University of Oregon campus.
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George Streisinger's wife, Lotte, was a noted artist and community activist, and the founder of the Eugene Saturday Market, the inspiration for the Portland Oregon Saturday Market.
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George Streisinger's studies revealed phenotypic mixing, in which a phage with a host-range genotype of one phage type was found in a particle who was phenotypically dissimilar.
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At the University of Oregon, George Streisinger pioneered the study of zebrafish in his lab.