Thomas Huston Roderick, Ph.D., (1930–2013) was an American geneticist who coined the term “genomics".[1]

Roderick earned degrees from the University of Michigan in philosophy in 1952 and zoology in 1953 and went on receive a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor as a geneticist. He researched behavioral genetics, the effects of radiation on genetic material, and bioinformatics. In 1973–1975 he worked at the United States Atomic Energy Commission, examining the health impacts of nuclear radiation.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Thomas H. Roderick, PhD". Bangor Daily News. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
  2. ^ Kuska, Bob (1998-01-21). "Beer, Bethesda, and Biology: How "Genomics" Came Into Being". JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 90 (2): 93. doi:10.1093/jnci/90.2.93. ISSN 0027-8874. PMID 9450566.


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