[1][2] At the age of 12 he was first inspired to learn about genetics by reading The Theory of the Gene by Thomas Hunt Morgan.
[3] Soller also learned much from the writings of Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright during this time.
[2] In 1972 he returned to Israel to lecture at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Genetics.
[2][1] discovery of genetic science"[5]: 119 As of 2012[update] Soller had authored and coauthored over 170 peer reviewed publications, and many book chapters and encyclopedia articles.
[2][3] The organisms he has studied include cattle and chickens, but also extend to plants, viruses, mice, pigs and others.