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Ray David Owen

Biology

#2784

World Rank

#4368

Historical Rank

#1209

USA Rank

Immunology

#241

World Rank

#251

Historical Rank

#63

USA Rank

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Ray David Owen's Degrees

Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
PhD Immunology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Ray David Owen was a teacher and scientist whose discovery of unusual, “mixed,” red blood cell types in cattle twins in 1945 launched the fields of modern immunology and organ transplantation. Owen's 1945 findings were published in the journal Science. This observation demonstrated that self was “learned” by the immune system during development and paved the way for research involving induction of immune tolerance and early tissue grafting. When Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Sir Peter Brian Medawar were awarded their 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance, Owen was not mentioned in the prize. However, in a letter to Owen, Medawar stated that he believed Owen should have also been included in the prize. Owen also led the successful effort to admit women as California Institute of Technology undergraduates.

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Ray David Owen's Published Works

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IMMUNOGENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF VASCULAR ANASTOMOSES BETWEEN BOVINE TWINS. (1945) (1252)
EVIDENCE FOR ACTIVELY ACQUIRED TOLERANCE TO Rh ANTIGENS. (1954) (126)
A Serologically Detected Variant in Mouse Serum: Inheritance and Association with the Histocompatibility-2 Locus. (1963) (114)
The B and C systems of bovine blood groups. (1951) (110)
Serological Types among Thirty-one Strains of the Ciliated Protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis* (1958) (61)
Variations among sublines of inbred AKR mice. (1973) (53)
Heterogeneity of antibodies to the human blood groups in normal and immune sera. (1954) (47)
Concepts of protein synthesis in relation to antibody formation. (1957) (46)
Karl Landsteiner and the first human marker locus. (2000) (44)
Immobilizing Antigens of Tetrahymena pyriformis (1959) (38)
EARLIER STUDIES OF BLOOD GROUPS IN THE RAT (1962) (27)
Medicolegal applications of blood-grouping tests. (1952) (26)
THE HOMOTRANSPLANTATION OF FUNCTIONAL ERYTHROPOIETIC ELEMENTS IN THE RAT FOLLOWING TOTAL‐BODY IRRADIATION (1957) (25)
The detection and isolation of naturally occurring strains of tobacco mosaic virus by electrophoresis. (1951) (24)
THE IMMUNE STATUS OF LONG-TERM SURVIVORS OF LETHALLY X-IRRADIATED MICE PROTECTED WITH ISOLOGOUS, HOMOLOGOUS, OR HETEROLOGOUS BONE MARROW. (1958) (23)
An Immunogenetic Analysis of Racial Differences in Dairy Cattle. (1947) (23)
Erythrocyte antigens and tolerance phenomena (1956) (23)
Genetic aspects of tissue transplantation and tolerance. (1959) (21)
Effect of Foreign Fetal and Newborn Blood-Forming Tissues on Survival of Lethally Irradiated Mice (1959) (21)
Characterization and Distribution of “H” Serotypes in 25°C Cultures of Tetrahymena pyriformis, Variety 1. (1961) (20)
Artificial Insemination of Pigeons and Doves (1941) (19)
STUDIES ON BLOOD GROUPS IN THE AMERICAN BISON (BUFFALO) (1958) (19)
Effects of antisera on tyrosinase in glomerella extracts. (1955) (18)
BLOOD GROUPS IN RHESUS MONKEYS * (1962) (17)
Differences in Frequency of Cellular Antigens in Two Breeds of Dairy Cattle (1944) (16)
Immunogenetic Studies of Tyrosinase Specificity. (1954) (13)
The Carotenoid Nature of Yellow Pigment in the Chicken Iris (1939) (13)
A comparative study of antibody inactivation of tobacco mosaic virus. (1957) (13)
THE RESISTANCE OF THE TOLERANT STATE TO X‐IRRADIATION (1960) (12)
Color Aberrations in Microtus and Pitymys (1942) (12)
THE LOSS OF PARTIAL TOLERANCE FOLLOWING SUB‐LETHAL IRRADIATION (1963) (10)
Genetic Differences in Hemoglobin as Markers for Bone Marrow Transplantation in Mice (1958) (9)
Reciprocal crosses between the guinea and the domestic fowl (1941) (8)
Anecdotal, historical and critical commentaries on genetics. (1989) (8)
Current status of mammalian immunogenetics. (1960) (7)
Iris pigmentation in domestic pigeons (1939) (6)
Kay Wilson and the NIH genetics study section. (2000) (6)
Erythrocyte mosaics among bovine twins and quadruplets. (1946) (5)
Blood group gene frequencies (1972) (4)
Red cell repopulation in irradiated mice treated with plethoric homologous bone marrow. (1960) (4)
Physiological aspects of genetics. (1954) (4)
Concluding remarks: The regulation of hemoglobin and immunoglobulin synthesis (1966) (3)
Antigenic characteristics of rat erythrocytes, and their use as markers for parabiotic exchange. (1948) (3)
Les Groupes Sanguins Chez les Animaux . Individualités sanguine et tissulaire. R. Dujarric de la Rivière and A. Eyquem. Editions Médicales Flammarion, Paris, 1953. 407 pp. Illus. F. 3275 (1954) (2)
The conversion of a cancer resistant to a cancer susceptible strain of mice by chemical means. (1948) (2)
Moscow genetics congress. (1978) (1)
Association between a heritable serum variant and the histocom- patibility-2 locus in the mouse. Abstr. (1961) (1)
Methods in mammalian immunogenetics. In w. J. Burdette (ed.), Methodology in mammalian genetics, holden- (1963) (1)
Les Groupes Sanguins Chez les Animaux. Individualités sanguine et tissulaire. R. Dujarric de la Rivière and A. Eyquem. Editions Médicales Flammarion, Paris, 1953. 407 pp. Illus. F. 3275 (1954) (1)
Reseau d'antennes adaptatives et procede de commande de fonctionnement associe (2001) (0)
The resistance of the tolerant state to x-irradiation. (1960) (0)
William H. Hildemann November 18, 1927–September 8, 1983 (2004) (0)
The Greeks Have a Word for It (1972) (0)
Genetic aspects of the immune response. (1970) (0)
Facts for a Friendly Frankenstein (1959) (0)
STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOGENETICS. Annual Progress Report. (1970) (0)
Immunological tolerance. (1957) (0)
Interview with Ray David Owen (2006) (0)
Linus Pauling and Biology at Caltech (1995) (0)
Symposium on Teaching Genetics: Teaching Genetics in School and University . C. D. Darlington and A. D. Bradshaw, Ed. Oliver and Boyd, London; Philosophical Library, New York, 1964. x + 121 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1965) (0)
Gene action on cellular characters in cattle. (1948) (0)
Genetic Aspects of Tissue Transplantation and Tolerance. (1959) (0)
Detailed letter to the editor calling on Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins t (2000) (0)
Erythrocyte repopulation after transplantation of homologous erythropoietic tissues into irradiated mice. (1959) (0)
Teaching Genetics in School and University. C. D. Darlington and A. D. Bradshaw, Ed. Oliver and Boyd, London; Philosophical Library, New York, 1964. x + 121 pp. Illus. $7.50 (1965) (0)
Letter from Ray D. Owen to Joshua Lederberg (1958) (0)
Genetic differences in hemoglobin as markers for bone marrow transplantation in mice. (1959) (0)
STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOGENETICS. Progress Report, July 29, 1966-- July 27, 1967. (1967) (0)
Frontiers in immunogenetics : proceedings of a symposium in honor of Professor Ray D. Owen with contributions from former students and colleagues : held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2 and 3, 1980 (1981) (0)
SUPPRESSION OF HEAVY AND LIGHT CHAIN ALLOTYPIC EXPRESSION IN HOMOZYGOUS RABBITS THROUGH EMBRYO TRANSFER* (2004) (0)
Facets of genetics : readings from Scientific American (1970) (0)
Even a Chicken May Become Notable (1971) (0)
Genetics and Evolution (1961) (0)
Genetics in the 20th century (1983) (0)
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF GRAFTING (1959) (0)
Royal Alexander Brink (1897-1984). (1986) (0)
294 McCABE , Quail Hybrids [ Auk (2003) (0)

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