Walter Landauer (15 July 1896 – February 1978) was a German-American animal geneticist, who was interested particularly in chicken.
In line with his pacifist ideals, he volunteered as a Red Cross nurse during WWI.
From 1922 to 1924 he studied under Curt Herbst, a scientist in the study of embryonic induction, investigating the effect of ammonia on the heredity of Echinoderm hybrids as Zoology Instructor at Heidelberg.
[2] In 1924 he emigrated to the United States when Leslie Clarence Dunn offered him a 10-month position at the University of Connecticut at the Experiment Station.
There he studied poultry defects, like rumplessness and chondrodystrophy in chicken embryos.