# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlotte-auerbach
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:11.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlotte-auerbach"
name: "Charlotte Auerbach"
slug: "charlotte-auerbach"
description: "Charlotte \"Lotte\" Auerbach FRS FRSE was a German geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. She wrote 91 scientific papers, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of London."
tagline: "Geneticist, author (1899–1994)"
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birthDate: "1899-05-14"
deathDate: "1994-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump