Raymond B. Griffiths *40

Raymond Griffiths, retired executive editor of The Journal of Cell Biology at Rockefeller University, died Oct. 3, 2011. He was 96.

Griffiths graduated from Rochester in 1937, and received a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton in 1940 and an M.D. from Northwestern in 1947. He was a captain in the Army Medical Corps from 1946 to 1948.

He taught anatomy from 1948 to 1957 at Yale Medical School, and was with the American Cancer Society from 1957 to 1960. From 1960 through 1983, when he retired, Griffiths was the executive editor of the monthly Journal of Cell Biology, published by Rockefeller University Press in cooperation with the American Society of Cell Biology.

At Griffiths’ retirement in 1983, Professor Keith R. Porter, the prominent pioneer in cell biology, wrote this about him: “Imagine, if you can, how many reviews of papers he has monitored and how constant he has been in maintaining the high level of excellence that has characterized the preparation of papers for publication. . . . [He] has really done more in his own way for cell biology than has been generally recognized.”

Griffiths is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sylvia Preston, a pediatric cardiologist; and their daughter, Wendy.

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