| Clyde Edgar Keeler | |
| Birth Date: | 11 April 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Marion, Ohio, US |
| Death Place: | Milledgeville, Georgia, US |
| Resting Place: | Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia |
| Fields: | Genetics, Medicine, Anthropology |
| Workplaces: | Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Edgewood School in Connecticut, Woman's College in North Carolina, Wesleyan College, Georgia State College for Women, Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, Georgia) |
| Education: | Sc. D. |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
| Thesis Title: | Rodless retinae: studies on an ophthalmic mutation in the house mouse. |
| Thesis Url: | http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003865173/catalog |
| Thesis Year: | 1926 |
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| Known For: | Studies of the Laboratory mouse, Visual System, and the Kuna people |
| Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Spouse: | Dr. Johanna Abel |
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| Children: | Irmgard (Irma) Keeler Howard |
Clyde Edgar Keeler (April 11, 1900 – April 22, 1994) was a medical geneticist who is noted for his work on laboratory mice and the genetics of vision. His work was instrumental in the understanding of retinitis pigmentosa. He also seems to have published the first scientific paper on non-rod non-cone visual sensation.
Short biographies may be found at the web site of Georgia College,[1] which keeps the Clyde E. Keeler collection, and at the Guggenheim Foundation,[2] where he was made a Fellow in 1938. His daughter, Irmgard Keeler Howard, wrote a three-page obituary for The Journal of Heredity[3] and he self-published an autobiography, The Gene Hunter.[4]