Gisela Mosig (November 29, 1930 – January 12, 2003) was a German-American molecular biologist best known for her work with enterobacteria phage T4.
[2][1] After World War II, the region where she lived became part of East Germany and evolutionary teaching in her high school skewed toward Lysenkoism.
[1] Finding the intellectual atmosphere intolerable, she fled to the west on her bicycle with only the belongings she could carry.
[1] Mosig died at Alive Hospice in Nashville a few years after being diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer.
[1][2] In her will she endowed a fund to support scholarly travel for Vanderbilt graduate students in the biological sciences.