Abstract
Arno G. Motulsky was born in Germany on July 5, 1923 and died in Seattle on January 17, 2018. Through his research, writing, and mentoring, he helped found the fields of human and medical genetics. His contributions as a scientist, physician, and mentor were enormous. His life and contributions are detailed in obituaries published by the New York Times (Grady, 2018), the American Journal of Human Genetics (Jarvik & King, 2018a, 2018b), Genetics in Medicine (Jarvik, in press), The American Journal of Medical Genetics (Obitz, 2018), and the University of Washington (Jarvik & King, 2018a, 2018b). He was born in Fischhausen near Konigsberg, East Prussia to Jewish parents. When the Nazi campaign escalated, his father emigrated to Cuba. At age 16 in 1939, the young Motulsky (with his mother and younger brother and sister) already on a waiting list for a visa to enter the United States, obtained a tourist entry card to join his father in Cuba. With more than 900 other Jewish refugees, the Motulsky family embarked on the ship the MS St. Louis from Hamburg to Havana (Miller & Ogilvie, 2006). On the deck of the St Louis in 1939. The arrow points to Arno. Photo used with permission, AP/Wide World Photo.
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