Leonard Herzenberg, a retired geneticist whose discoveries are said to have kept thousands of people alive, died Oct. 27 at Stanford University Hospital, where he had been since Oct. 8 after suffering a severe stroke. He was 81.
A retired professor at Stanford School of Medicine, Herzenberg helped develop the first fluorescence-activated cell sorter, enabling the birth of modern immunology, stem cell research and proteomics, the study of the structure and functions of proteins, said medical school Dean Lloyd Minor… Continue reading.