Ruth Sager, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRuth Sager
American geneticist
Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1918
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 29-Mar-1997
Profession: geneticist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ruth Sager
- Ruth Sager (February 7, 1918 – March 29, 1997) was an American geneticist.
- Sager enjoyed two scientific careers.
- Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics by discovering transmission of genetic traits through chloroplast DNA, the first known example of genetics not involving the cell nucleus.
- The academic community did not acknowledge the significance of her contribution until after the second wave of feminism in the 1970s.
- Her second career began in the early 1970s and was in cancer genetics; she proposed and investigated the roles of tumor suppressor genes.
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