| Adelaide Carpenter | |
| Birth Name: | Adelaide T. C. Carpenter |
| Birth Date: | 24 June 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Georgia, United States |
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| Known For: | Discovery of the recombination nodule |
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Adelaide T. C. Carpenter (June 24, 1944 – May 31, 2024) was an American fruit fly geneticist at the University of Cambridge.
Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in Georgia, United States and grew up in North Carolina. In the 1970s, whilst at the University of Washington, she was one of the numerous graduate students mentored by Larry Sandler.[3] In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego. In 1989, after becoming full professor, she took a second sabbatical in the United Kingdom.
Carpenter passed away on May 31, 2024.[4]
In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the recombination nodule, an organelle that mediates meiotic recombination.[5]