Joe Hin Tjio | |
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| Born | 2 November 1919 |
| Died | 27 November 2001 (aged 82) Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S |
| Alma mater | Bogor Institute of Agriculture |
| Spouse | Inga Bjorg Arna Bildsfell |
| Children | 1 son |
| Awards | International Prize Award by Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cytogenetics |
| Institutions | National Institute of Health |
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| Traditional Chinese | 蔣有興[1] | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蒋有兴 | ||||||||||||
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Joe Hin Tjio (/ˈtʃiːoʊ/; 2 November 1919 – 27 November 2001), was an Indonesian-born American cytogeneticist. He was renowned as the first person to recognize the normal number of human chromosomes on 22 December 1955 at the Institute of Genetics of the University of Lund in Sweden, where he was a visiting scientist.
- ^ 李名揚 (July 2008), 台灣癌症醫療之母 (PDF), 科學人看 (in Chinese (Taiwan)), pp. 86–91, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2012, retrieved 3 August 2011