Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

En les conferències impartides en el marc de l'Any de l'Evolució no podia faltar l'aportació de Vassiliski Betty Smocovitis. La biòloga i historiadora de la ciència va oferir al públic present una visió més àmplia entorn a la figura de Charles Darwin. UABDIVULGA va parlar amb ella per profunditzar més sobre aquest tema.En las conferencias impartidas en el marco del Año de la Evolución no podía faltar el aporte de Vassiliski Betty Smocovitis. La bióloga e historiadora de la ciencia ofreció al público presente una visión más amplia en torno a la figura de Charles Darwin. UABDIVULGA habló con ella para profundizar un poco más en este tema

Genetics Behind Barbed Wire: Masuo Kodani, Émigré Geneticists, and Wartime Genetics Research at Manzanar Relocation Center

This article explores the sociopolitical backdrop of genetics research during the politically turbulent decades of the mid-20th century that saw the persecution, displacement, and relocation of unpopular minorities in both the United States and Europe. It explores how geneticists in the United States accommodated these disruptions through formal and informal émigré networks and how the subsequent war affected their research programs and their lives. It does so by focusing on the career and life of geneticist Masuo Kodani, who, as a Japanese American, found himself conducting unexpected cytogenetics research in Manzanar, a “relocation center,” or internment camp, located in the California desert, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war, Kodani's subsequent career continued to be shaped by his experiences as a Japanese American and by the specific skills as a cytogeneticist that he demonstrated at a critical period in the history of 20th-century genetics. His many relocations in search of employment culminated in his work with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission on human chromosomes, for which he is best known