author
Walter E. Kisieleski
1920–2011
A research chemist and science writer, he helped explain how radioactive tracers could reveal the hidden workings of living cells. His work connected laboratory science with clear, accessible teaching for general readers and students.
1 Audiobook
Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)
by Walter E. Kisieleski, Renato Baserga
About the author
Walter E. Kisieleski (1920–2011) spent his professional life in scientific research, including a long career at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Sources connected with his book Radioisotopes and Life Processes describe him as an associate scientist in Argonne’s Division of Biology and Medicine, and note that he had also been an associate professor of chemistry at Loyola University in Chicago.
He wrote about radioisotopes, radiotrace methods, and related biological research, and he coauthored Radioisotopes and Life Processes with Renato Baserga. A Scientific American author page also links him with writing on advances in radioautography, a technique used to trace the life cycle of cells.
Available biographical information is fairly limited, but obituary records identify him as Walter Edward Kisieleski and place his life from June 22, 1920, to July 19, 2011. Taken together, the record that survives presents him as a working scientist who also had a gift for explaining complex research in a practical, readable way.