Birthdate: April 12, 1878
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
Died: April 24, 1958
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt was a pioneering German geneticist renowned for integrating genetics, development, and evolution. He made significant contributions to understanding reaction norms, genetic assimilation, dynamical genetics, sex determination, and heterochrony. Goldschmidt’s “Hopeful Monster” hypothesis proposed a model of macroevolution through macromutations. His description of the nematode’s nervous system influenced Sydney Brenner’s research on Caenorhabditis elegans, contributing to Brenner and his colleagues winning the Nobel Prize in 2002.
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