%0 Journal Article
%T 2016 Curt Stern Award Introduction: Brendan Lee
%J Archive of "American Journal of Human Genetics".
%D 2017
%R 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.01.007
%X It is my distinct pleasure to introduce Brendan Lee as the 2016 recipient of the Curt Stern Award. In his introduction to the 2012 award, Evan Eichler provided biographical information on Curt Stern, which you can find published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.1 In brief, he was an Ashkenazi German who correctly interpreted the coming Nazi horrors and fled in 1933. I knew of Curt Stern through the third edition of his book entitled Principles of Human Genetics.2 Having never taken a genetics fellowship, as a new faculty member in 1971, I believe that I learned more genetics in my very early years from this book than from any other single source. Although Stern was a Drosophila geneticist who made major contributions to understanding the role of radiation in genetics, he said that he wrote the book to ¡°to feed the needs of premedical students.
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339080/