Hans Gruneberg

Hans Grüneberg (26 May 1907-23 October 1982) was a British geneticist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956. Most of his work focused on mouse genetics. He was the first person to describe siderocytes and sideroblasts, red blood cells or their precursors that contain visible on the Prussian blue reaction, in a pair of letters to the journal Nature in 1941.

Career

 * Honorary Research Assistant, University College, London, 1933-38
 * Moseley Research Student of Royal Society, 1938-42
 * Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1942-46
 * Reader in Genetics, University College, London, 1946-55
 * Honorary Director, Medical Research Council Experimental Genetics Research Unit, 1955-72
 * Professor of Genetics University College, London, 1956-1974
 * Affiliated with the Department of Pathology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex
 * Emeritus Professor University College, London from retirement, 1974