Peo Charles Koller
Pius Charles Koller FRSE (in hungarian: Koller Károly Pius; 4 March 1901[1] – 29 June 1979), known as Peo Charles Koller, was a Hungarian-born cytologist and cytogeneticist.
Peo Charles Koller | |
|---|---|
| Born | Koller Károly 4 March 1901[1] |
| Died | June 29, 1979 (aged 78) |
| Education | University of Budapest (1928) |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | cytologist, cytogeneticist |
Life
Koller was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary on 4 March 1901. He studied at the University of Budapest graduating with a BSc in 1928, continuing as a postgraduate, gaining a PhD.
He left Hungary in the years leading up to World War II and relocated to Scotland around 1936. In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Alan William Greenwood, Sir Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, and James Nichol Pickard. He won the Society's Neill Prize for the period 1939 to 1941 and the David Anderson-Berry Prize for 1947.[2]
In 1938 he began lecturing in animal genetics at the University of Edinburgh. In 1944 he moved to the Royal Cancer Hospital in London as Research Cytologist. in 1946 he moved again, this time to the Chester Beatty Research Institute, first as Cytologist then as Professor of Cytogenetics.[2]
He died on 29 June 1979.
Family
In 1946 he married Anna Edith Olsen.
Publications
- Koller: Chromosomes and Genes: The Biological Basis of Heredity (1971)
- The Role of Chromosomes in Cancer Biology (1972)
References
- register office
- Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.