Albert Tyler (biologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American biologist
Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1906
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 09-Nov-1968
Profession: biologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Albert Tyler (biologist)
- Albert Tyler (June 26, 1906 – 1968) was an American biologist whose research was focused on reproductive biology and development in marine organisms. Tyler was born in Brooklyn, New York.
- He attended Columbia University majoring in chemistry.
- When he started graduate studies he took interest in the work of Thomas Hunt Morgan.
- Morgan took Tyler, and several other graduate students and research fellows with him, to the California Institute of Technology when he was hired to establish the new Division of Biology.
- Tyler completed his Ph.D.
- studies on reproductive biology and was appointed to the faculty at Caltech. Tyler's research looked at development and differentiation of embryos from a range of marine organisms.
- He made early use of immunohistochemical techniques and was one of the first researchers to recognize that maternal messenger RNA present in the ovum could affect differentiation.
- His research on nucleic acid and protein synthesis in sea urchin eggs was cut short when he died unexpectedly in 1968.
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