Charlotte Auerbach

Charlotte Lotte Auerbach FRS FRSE was a GermanJewish zoologist and geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. She wrote 91 scientific papers, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as of the Royal Society of London.

Charlotte Auerbach was born in Krefeld in Germany, the daughter of Friedrich Auerbach and Selma Sachs. She may have been influenced by the scientists in her family her father Friedrich Auerbach was a chemist, her uncle a physicist, and her grandfather, the anatomist Leopold Auerbach.

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