Leslie Clarence Dunn (November 2, 1893 in Buffalo, New York – March 19, 1974) was a developmental geneticist at Columbia University.
His early work with the mouse T-locus and established ideas of gene interaction, fertility factors, and allelic distribution.
[1] Dunn was also an activist, helping fellow scientists seek asylum during World War II, and a critic of eugenics movements.
[2] He worked from 1920 to 1928 as a poultry geneticist at the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station in Connecticut, publishing almost fifty papers during this time.
[2] The younger son, Stephen, was a social anthropologist and writer, publishing books such as The Peasants of Central Russia (1967) and Introduction to Soviet Ethnography (1974) (with his wife Ethel Deikman Dunn), Cultural Processes in the Baltic Area Under Soviet Rule (1966), and edited, translated, and taught.