Felix Mitelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Felix Mitelman

Swedish geneticist

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1940

Place of Birth: Wolbrom, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: geneticist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Felix Mitelman (born 26 August 1940) is a Swedish geneticist and is Professor of Clinical Genetics in Lund, Sweden.
He is best known for his pioneering work on chromosome changes in cancer. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Science.
He was awarded the Jubilee Prize of the Swedish Medical Association in 1989, the Nordic Fernström prize in 2007, the Söderberg Prize in Medicine in 2008, and the European Society of Human Genetics Award in 2013.
He is the Founding Editor (1989) and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer.