Karl Sax

Affiliations: 
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
cytology and genetics, focusing on chromosomal studies and their application to cross breeding of agricultural varieties, Chromosome aberrations induced by X-rays
Website:
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1000&page=372
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Bio:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~ajp00016

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Parents

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Ernest Brown Babcock grad student UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
 (Evidence that Babcock was a mentor of Karl Sax: https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/sax-karl.pdf)
Edward Murray East grad student 1922 Harvard

Children

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Norman Henry Giles grad student 1940 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Charles M. Rick, Jr grad student 1940 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Sheldon Wolff grad student 1953 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Walter Samuel Flory post-doc 1935-1936 Harvard
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TEAS HJ, SAX H, SAX K. (1965) CYCASIN: RADIOMIMETIC EFFECT. Science (New York, N.Y.). 149: 541-2
SAX K. (1961) Radiation sensitivity of Tradescantia microspore chromosomes to a second exposure of x-rays. Radiation Research. 14: 668-73
Sax K. (1960) Meiosis in Interspecific Pine Hybrids Forest Science. 6: 135-138
SAX K. (1957) The effect of ionizing radiation on chromosomes. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 32: 15-26
Sax K, King ED. (1955) AN X-RAY ANALYSIS OF CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 150-5
SAX K, KING ED, LUIPPOLD H. (1955) The effect of fractionated x-ray dosage on the frequency of chromatid and chromosome aberrations. Radiation Research. 2: 171-9
SAX K. (1953) Symposium on Chromosome Breakage. (Suppl. to Heredity, 6 [1953]). Held at the John Innes Horticultural Institution, June 9-11, 1952. London-Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1953. 315 pp. Illus. + plates. $7.50 Science. 118: 658-659
King ED, Schneiderman HA, Sax K. (1952) The Effects of Carbon Monoxide and Oxygen on the Frequency of X-Ray Induced Chromosome Aberrations in Tradescantia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 38: 34-43
Sax K, Luippold H. (1952) The effect of fractional x-ray dosage on the frequency of chromosome aberrations Heredity. 6: 127-131
SAX K. (1950) The effect of x-rays on chromosome structure. Journal of Cellular Physiology. Supplement. 35: 71-81
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