Clyde Edgar Keeler (April 11, 1900 – April 22, 1994) was a medical geneticist who is noted for his work on

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and the genetics of vision. His work was instrumental in the understanding of

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. He also seems to have published the first scientific paper on non-rod non-cone visual sensation. Short biographies may be found at the web site of Georgia College, which keeps the Clyde E. Keeler collection, and at the Guggenheim Foundation, where he was made a Fellow in 1938. His daughter, Irmgard Keeler Howard, wrote a three-page obituary for ''

The Journal of Heredity The ''Journal of Heredity'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Genetic Association. Histo ...

'' and he self-published an autobiography, ''The Gene Hunter''. The manuscript is in the Keeler Collection.

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20th-century American zoologists American geneticists People from Marion, Ohio 1900 births 1994 deaths Harvard University alumni Scientists from Ohio Burials at Memory Hill Cemetery {{US-zoologist-stub