Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (born 1922)

Emile Zuckerkandl

Austrian-French biologist (1922–2013)

Émile Zuckerkandl was an Austrian-born French biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He introduced, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution.