L. C. Dunn

Dunn was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1893, to Clarence Leslie Dunn and Mary Eliza Booth Dunn. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1915. Dunn was married to Louise Porter, a Smith College graduate, and the couple had two children, Robert Leslie Dunn (b. 1921) and Stephen Porter Dunn (b. 1928). ==Significant papers and contributions==

• Dunn, L.C. 1920. "Independent Genes in Mice", Genetics, v.5, pp. 344–361. • Dunn, L.C. 1920. "Linkage in mice and rats", Genetics, v.5, pp. 325–343. (Dunn's dissertation at Harvard) • Dunn, L.C. 1957. "Evidence of evolutionary forces leading to the spread of lethal genes in wild populations of house mice", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA v.43, pp. 158–163. • Dunn, L. C. 1959. "Heredity and Evolution in Human Populations", v.75, pp. 117–192. • Dunn, L.C. 1964. "Abnormalities associated with a chromosome region in the mouse", Science, v.144, pp. 260–263. • Dunn, L.C. and W.C. Morgan. 1952. "A mutable locus in wild populations of house mice", Am. Nat. v.86, pp. 321–323. • Dunn, L.C., H. Gruneberg, and G.D. Snell. 1940. "Report of the Committee on Mouse Genetics Nomenclature", J. Hered. v.31, pp. 505–506. • Dunn, L.C. 1951. Race and Biology: The Race Question in Modern Science (UNESCO, 1951; 3rd edition 1970) • Heredity, Race, and Society (1946; fourth edition 1972) • A Short History of Genetics (1965) • Organizer, with Milislav Demerec, The Cold Spring Harbor Symposia, 1940s-1950s ==Awards and honors==

• U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected 1943) • American Philosophical Society (1943) • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1950) • Norwegian Academy of Sciences • Italian Academia Pataviana • Founding member, Genetics Society of America • President, Genetics Society of America, 1932 • President, American Society of Naturalists, 1960 • President, American Society of Human Genetics, 1961 ==Notes==

• American Philosophical Society, L. C. Dunn Biography • William deJong-Lambert, The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research: An Introduction to the Lysenko Affair, Chapter 1, Sections 1.4: "Julian Huxley and Leslie Clarence Dunn" and 1.5 "J. B. S. Haldane, and Dunn's Visit to the Soviet Union". • Theodosius Dobzhansky, Leslie Clarence Dunn, 1893-1974: A Biographical Memoir (National Academy of Sciences 1978) • Melinda Gormley, "Geneticist L.C. Dunn: Politics, Activism, and Community" (Oregon State University PhD Thesis 2007) • Michael Gordin How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky, Journal of the History of Biology (2012) 45:443-468. • M. Gormley, "Scientific Discrimination and the Activist Scientist", J. Hist. Biol., v.42, n.1, pp. 33–72 (Spring 2009). • Mary F. Lyon, "L. C. Dunn and Mouse Genetic Mapping", Genetics (1990). "Perspectives: Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics", edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove. • "L. C. Dunn Papers", A Guide to the Genetics Collections at the American Philosophical Society: Major Collections. See also L. C. Dunn Papers - Table of Contents.