Robert Philip Wagner | |
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| Born | May 11, 1918 |
| Died | March 3, 2004 (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York University of Texas at Austin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | The Natural Nutrition of Drosophila mulleri and Drosophila aldrichi (1943) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. T. Patterson |
Robert Philip Wagner (1918-2004) was an American professor of genetics who spent most of his academic career at the University of Texas at Austin. After retiring from academics, he served as a long-term consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He wrote a number of key textbooks in genetics and was known as an enthusiastic early proponent of the Human Genome Project.[1]