Claudio Barigozzi (1909 – 5 August 1996) was an Italian

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and

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. Barigozzi taught

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at the

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in 1948, and was a scholar of the transmission of hereditary traits using

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and

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as model organisms. An adviser of the ''Centro Lombardo per l'incremento della Orto-floro-frutticoltura'' in Minoprio,

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, he promoted genetic research as a member of the Italian National Research Council's committee for the study of genetics in 1961, of the scientific board of the National Genetics Centre in

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in 1963, and other Italian and foreign academies. His more proficient pupils include the geneticists Ercole Ottaviano, Giuseppe Gavazzi, and Alessandro Camussi.

References

* ''Mechanisms of Speciation: Proceedings from the International Meeting on Mechanisms of Speciation'', Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei. * ''Origin and Natural History of Cell Lines: Proceedings of a Conference, Held at Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, October 28–29, 1977''. * ''Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare, Accademia Naziona'', Springer Verlag. * ''Giornata Lincea Nella Ricorrenza Del Centenario Della Riscoperta Delle Leggi Di Mendel: In Ricordo Di Claudio Barigozzi, Adriano Buzzati Traverso, Francesco D'Amato and Giuseppe Montalenti (Rome, 9.11.2000)'' Francesco D'Amato, Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso, Claudio Barigozzi, Giuseppe Montalenti; Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei. * ''Manipolazioni Genetiche ed Etica Cattolica (in collaboration with Carlo Caffarra, Luigi De Carli)'', Piemme. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barigozzi, Claudio 1909 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Italian biologists Italian geneticists Scientists from Milan