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=**Joe Hin Tjio!!** =

=Who is he? =

Joe Hin Tjio, was the first person to correctly recognize the number of human chromosomes. (This event occurred on December 22, 1955 at the Institute of Genetics)

=Huh? =

He was the first person to figure out that humans have 23 chromosome pairs.

=Facts!! =) =


 * 1) Joe was a cytogeneticist. (A cytogenecticist is someone who studies the form of a cell.)[[image:nrg1917-f4.jpg align="right"]]
 * 2) Joe is Chinese!
 * 3) Joe Hin Tjio was born in 1916, and died in 2001. ='(