Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878-1958), German-US geneticist. Goldschmidt studied at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1902.
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878-1958), German-US geneticist. Goldschmidt studied at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1902. He worked from 1914 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin, publishing his theory of sex determination in the gypsy moth: 'Lymantria' (1934). He left Germany in 1935 following the rise of the Nazis to power, and was appointed a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. One of his key ideas in evolution was the 'hopeful monster' aspect of macromutation theories, rejected at the time by neo-Darwinists but later shown to be justified. Photographed on 11 January 1928.
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