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in Buffalo, New York –

March 19, 1974) was a developmental geneticist at Columbia University. His

early work with the mouse T-locus and established ideas

of gene interaction, fertility factors,

and allelic distribution. Later

work with other model organisms continued

to contribute to developmental genetics. Dunn was also an activist,

helping fellow scientists seek asylum during World War II, and a critic

of eugenics movements.  Dunn was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1893, to Clarence Leslie Dunn and Mary

Eliza Booth Dunn. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1915. Dunn served in

the Harvard Regiment in

France during World War I, and after the

war, returned to Harvard University to

complete his degree in 1920. After the war, he identified as a pacifist. He worked from 1920 to 1928 as a poultry

geneticist at an Agricultural Experiment

Station in Storrs, Connecticut, publishing

almost fifty papers during this time. Dunn, along with

colleague E. W. Sinnott, was the

author of one of the foremost early genetics texts, Principles of

Genetics (first published in 1925). In 1928 Dunn was

invited to join Columbia University as

a full professor in the Zoology Department. While there, he was renowned for

his teaching, and influenced numerous students, included

"outstanding" developmental biologists Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch and Dorothea Bennett. Dunn was married to Louise

Porter, a Smith College graduate,

and the couple had two children, Robert Leslie Dunn (b. 1921) and Stephen

Porter Dunn (b. 1928).[2] Dunn and his family loved literature and

poetry, as did Dunn's mother, and established a press (Coalbin Press) to

publish occasional volumes of poetry. The younger son, Stephen, was a social anthropologist and

writer, publishing books such as The Peasants of Central Russia (1967)

and Introduction to Soviet Ethnography (1974) (with his wife

Ethel Deikman Dunn), Cultural Processes in the Baltic Area Under Soviet

Rule (1966), and edited, translated, and taught. He died on

March 19, 1974 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown, New York. 

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