Adriano Buzzati-Traverso

Italian geneticist (1913–1983).

Adriano Buzzati-Traverso (6 April 1913, Milan, Italy – 22 April 1983) was an Italian geneticist. He was the brother of the well-known writer Dino Buzzati. He studied X-ray induced mutations, evolutionary and population genetics. In 1962 he founded in Naples the Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica (International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics) which helped advance biological research in Italy and wrote several influential books on genetics. Buzzati was born in Milan, the son of Giulio Cesare (d. 1920), a professor of law at the University of Pavia. The family came family f