Joe Hin Tjio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joe Hin Tjio

Indonesian geneticist

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Java, Indonesia

Date of Death: 27-Nov-2001

Profession: geneticist

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joe Hin Tjio (2 November 1919 – 27 November 2001), was an Indonesian-born American cytogeneticist.
He was renowned as the first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes.
This epochal event occurred on December 22, 1955 at the Institute of Genetics of the University of Lund in Sweden, where Tjio was a visiting scientist.