Thomas Roderick

{{Short description|American geneticist}}

Thomas Huston Roderick, Ph.D., (1930–2013) was an American geneticist who coined the term “genomics".{{Cite web|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2013/09/06/obituaries/thomas-h-roderick-phd/|title=Thomas H. Roderick, PhD|website=Bangor Daily News|date=6 September 2013|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-12}}

Roderick earned degrees from the University of Michigan in philosophy in 1952 and zoology in 1953 and went on receive a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor as a geneticist. He researched behavioral genetics, the effects of radiation on genetic material, and bioinformatics. In 1973–1975 he worked at the United States Atomic Energy Commission, examining the health impacts of nuclear radiation.{{Cite journal|last=Kuska|first=Bob|date=1998-01-21|title=Beer, Bethesda, and Biology: How "Genomics" Came Into Being|url=https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/90/2/93/932410|journal=JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute|language=en|volume=90|issue=2|pages=93|doi=10.1093/jnci/90.2.93|pmid=9450566|issn=0027-8874|doi-access=free}}