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Riddle grew up on a farm near Cincinnati, the seventh of nine children. When he was five, his father died, and he had to work hard to get through college. He taught biological subjects in Spanish at a school in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated with a B. A. from the University of Louisiana at Bloomington. He had to teach at a high school for two years before he proceeded to Ph. D. study in 1907 at the Department of Zoology at the University in Chicago. His main interest was the anatomy and physiology of birds. He went to Europe on a travel fellowship. Thereafter he joined the laboratories of the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, where he worked 35 years.
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Bettendorf, G. (1995). Riddle, Oscar. In: Bettendorf, G. (eds) Zur Geschichte der Endokrinologie und Reproduktionsmedizin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79152-9_184
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