Rudolf Raff Explained

Rudy Raff
Birth Date:	November 10, 1941
Birth Place:	Shawinigan, Québec, Canada
Death Place:	Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Evolutionary developmental biology
Workplaces:	Indiana University, National Naval Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards:	A.O. Kovalevsky Medal (2001) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010)^[1] Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) ^[2] Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) ^[3]

Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University.^[4] He was known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He was also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.^{[5] [6]}

Life

Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec^[7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77.^[8]

Awards

Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow.^[9] He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award,^[10] and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001.^{[11] [12]} He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[13]

Works

• with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Macmillan 1983,
• The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form, University of Chicago Press, 1996,
• William R. Jeffery, Rudolf A. Raff (eds), Time, space, and pattern in embryonic development, A.R. Liss, 1983,
• Rudolf A. Raff, Once We All Had Gills, Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Indiana University Press 2012,

External links

• http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/rudolf-raff

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historic Fellows.
2. Web site: Rudolf A. Raff | American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 9 February 2023.
3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rudolf A. Raff.
4. Web site: Faculty Profile : Department of Biology : Indiana University Bloomington . 2011-10-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327013852/http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=raffr . 2012-03-27 . dead .
5. Web site: Rudolf A. Raff . 2011-10-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120722022953/http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/raff.html . 2012-07-22 . dead .
6. Web site: Akst . Jef . Leader of Evo-Devo Field, Rudy Raff, Dies . The Scientist . Jan 9, 2019.
7. https://www.bio.indiana.edu/documents/historical-materials/Raff_Rudolf_retirement_tribute_2017.pdf
8. Web site: Rudolf "Rudy" Albert Raff. Dignity Memorial.
9. Web site: Rudolf A. Raff - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2011-10-29 . 2011-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111112071019/http://www.gf.org/fellows/11919-rudolf-a-raff . dead .
10. McPeek . Mark . 2004 Sewall Wright Award: Rudolf A. Raff . The American Naturalist . 2005 . 165 . 1 . i . 10.1086/427345. 82016600 .
11. Web site: Lewis . Ricki . Rudolf Raff . The Scientist . en . May 13, 2002.
12. Mikhailov . AT . Gilbert . SF . From development to evolution: the re-establishment of the "Alexander Kowalevsky Medal". . The International Journal of Developmental Biology . 2002 . 46 . 5 . 693–8 . 12216980 .
13. Web site: Five faculty honored : Department of Biology : Indiana University Bloomington . 2011-10-29 . 2012-04-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120401074243/http://www.bio.indiana.edu/alumni/newsletters/11Summer/faculty.shtml . dead .