Milton Schlesinger (born 1927,[1] d. October 27, 2017) was a professor (later emeritus) of molecular microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine, known for his role in the study of heat shock proteins.
[2][3] Schlesinger attended Yale University as an undergraduate and received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1951.
He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, Italy, and three years as a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in 1967.
He would remain there for the rest of his scientific career, reaching the rank of full professor in 1972 and serving two stints as the acting chair of the microbiology department.
He took visiting positions and sabbaticals at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories and at Harvard University.