Buck, Linda B. (1947–)
Buck, Linda B. (1947–)
American immunologist. Born Jan 29, 1947, in Seattle, Washington; University of Washington, BS in psychology, 1975; BS in microbiology, 1975; University of Texas, PhD in immunology, 1980.
Was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University (1980–84); was an associate at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia (1984–91), then assistant investigator (1994–97), associate investigator (1997–2000), and finally named full investigator (2001); was assistant professor in department of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School (1991–96), then associate professor (1996–2001), and professor (2001–02); became full member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (2002). With Dr. Richard Axel, received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004), for determining how people can smell and recall about 10,000 different odors, a discovery they made while working together at Columbia in 1991.