Janet Davison Rowley was an American human geneticist born April 5, 1925, in New York City, and died December 17, 2013, who spent most of her career at the University of Chicago. She was the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of a cancer, showing that leukemia cells carried specific exchanges of material between chromosomes and thereby establishing that cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, work that revealed how particular translocations correspond to particular diseases. She received the National Medal of Science in 1998, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 1998, the Gruber Prize in Genetics in 2009, the Japan Prize in 2012, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 - December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 - December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925, December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
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