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Walter Bodmer (Walter Fred Bodmer) was born on 10 January, 1936 in Frankfurt, Nazi Germany, is a German-born British human geneticist. Discover Walter Bodmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?
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Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936 ) is a German-born British human geneticist.
Bodmer was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge as a student of Clare College, Cambridge.
Bodmer's father was Jewish so the family were obliged to leave Nazi Germany; in 1938, they settled in Manchester, England.
In 1956, Walter Bodmer married Julia Bodmer (née Pilkington) 1934–2001; she also became a well-known geneticist.
They had two sons and a daughter.
He was awarded his PhD in 1959 from Cambridge for research on population genetics in the house mouse and Primula vulgaris (primrose) supervised by Ronald Fisher.
In 1961 Bodmer joined Joshua Lederberg's laboratory in the genetics department of Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher, continuing his work on population genetics.
In 1962 Walter Bodmer was appointed to the faculty at Stanford.
He left Stanford University in 1970 to become the first professor of genetics at the University of Oxford.
Bodmer developed models for population genetics and worked on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies.
He was the director of research (1979–1991) and then director general (1991–1996) of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been credited with starting the movement for the public understanding of science.
Bodmer was one of the first to suggest the idea of the Human Genome Project.
In 1987 he received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine.
He was also chancellor of the University of Salford, England (1995–2005; succeeded by Sir Martin Harris) and principal of Hertford College, Oxford (1996–2005; succeeded by Dr. John Landers).
He has been head of the cancer and immunogenetics laboratory in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford since 1996.
Research interests of the laboratory include the fundamental genetics and biology of colorectal cancer.
Bodmer has won numerous awards including:
His certificate of election to the Royal Society reads:
"Distinguished for his theoretical and experimental contributions to genetics. His analyses of population genetics models, especially human, his contribution to the understanding of bacterial transformation, to the understanding of the HL-A system, and to the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies are outstanding. Few scientists have contributed distinguished work in such a range of fields, and involving such a range of experience of techniques, mathematical and experimental, and such a range of organisms."
Lady Bodmer died in 2001.
In 2005, Bodmer was appointed to lead a £2.3 million project (roughly US$4.5 million) by the Wellcome Trust at the University of Oxford to examine the genetic makeup of the United Kingdom – the People of the British Isles project.
He was joined by Oxford Professor Peter Donnelly (a population genetics and statistics expert) and the Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Lon Cardon.
Bodmer said, "Our aim is to characterise the genetic make-up of the British population and relate this to the historical and archaeological evidence."
The researchers presented some of their findings to the public via the Channel 4 television series "Faces of Britain".
On 14 April 2007, Channel 4 in Britain aired a program that highlighted the study's then-current findings.
The project took DNA samples from hundreds of volunteers throughout Britain, seeking tell-tale fragments of DNA that would reveal the biological traces of successive waves of colonisers – Celts, Saxons, Vikings, etc. – in various parts of Britain.
The findings showed that the Viking invasion of Britain was predominantly from Danish Vikings while the Orkney Islands were settled by Norwegian Vikings.
Bodmer had previously worked with the Galton Institute as its president from 2008 to 2014.
This research was most recently presented at the Galton Institute's conference on 'New Light on Old Britons' in 2019.