| LC control no. | n 78067460 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Russell, Liane B. |
| Variant(s) | Russell, L. B. (Liane B.) Brauch, Liane Ruth, 1923-2019 |
| Birth date | 1923-08-27 |
| Death date | 2019-07-20 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Oak Ridge (Tenn.) |
| Field of activity | Animal genetics |
| Affiliation | Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | Zoologists Geneticists |
| Found in | Genetic mosaics and chimeras in mammals, c1978 (a.e.) t.p. (Liane B. Russell; Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., Oak Ridge, Tenn.) Evaluation of mutagenic effects of diesel emissions, 1981: t.p. (L. B. Russell) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 26, 2019 (Liane B. Russell, a refugee of Nazi Europe who became one of the most distinguished female scientists of her era, building a colony of more than 200,000 laboratory mice that she used to demonstrate the importance of protecting developing embryos from X-rays and other forms of radiation, died July 20 [2019] in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She was 95. In 1947, she and her husband, fellow scientist William Russell, joined what became the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Both had doctorates in zoology and specialized in genetics. Liane Ruth Brauch was born in Vienna on Aug. 27, 1923. "Lee," as Dr. Russell was called, received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Hunter College in New York City in 1945, became a U.S. citizen in 1946 and received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949. She retired from Oak Ridge in 2002) |
| Associated language | eng |
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