In Memoriam: Norton Zinder (1929–2012) Geneticist

![Figure][1] Norton Zinder Photo courtesy of The Rockefeller University Zinder, a superb geneticist (who also embraced biochemistry), died on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. He was 83. Zinder came of age at the dawn of microbial genetics. A prodigy with an eidetic memory, he