About Paul Polani
Lived 1914 – 2006 (aged 92). Paul Polani was a geneticist.
Paul Emanuel Polani (1914–2006) was an Italian-Austrian geneticist, described by the Royal College of Physicians as "one of the key figures in the development of medical genetics".
Life Polani was born in Trieste, on 1 January 1914, the son of the son of Elisabetta, née Zennaro, and Enrico Polani. He trained in Italy and moved to the United Kingdom to study in 1939.
He was a Fellow of King's College London, and a Research Professor Emeritus at London University.
He received the Royal College of Physicians' Baly Medal in 1985, and delivered the Langdon Brown memorial lecture in 1984 and the Harveian Oration in 1988.
The genetic research library at Guy's Hospital was renamed in his honour in 1982.
He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1973.
He died on 18 February 2006.
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Italian-Austrian geneticist
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