Peo Charles Koller

Prof Pius ("Peo") Charles Koller FRSE (1904-1979) was a Hungarian-born cytologist and cytogeneticist.

Life

He was born in Hungary on 3 April 1904. He studied at the University of Budapest graduating BSc in 1924 he continued as a postgraduate gaining a PhD.

He left Hungary in the troubled years leading up to the Second World War 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.[1]

In 1938 he began lecturing in Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University. 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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
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