the war he continued to work on bacterial genetics and the problem of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. In the 1950s he served on the genetics panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation. In 1952 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Following his retirement from CSHL, he took a position at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, working there until 1965. In 1966 he served briefly as research professor at Long Island University, until he died on April 12, 1966. References Further reading Comfort N. C. Demerec, Milislav. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000 Milislav Demerec Biography, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Kass, L. B. and Chomet, P. 2009. Barbara McClintock, Pgs. 17–52, in J. Bennetzen and S. Hake, Editors, Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. Springer. Kass, Lee B. 2005b. Missouri compromise: tenure or freedom. New evidence clarifies why Barbara McClintock left Academe. Maize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter 79: 52–71. Available, online, April 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20110717183510/http://www.agron.missouri.edu/mnl/79/05kass.htm Hollaender, A., Sansome E. R., Zimmer, E., Demerec, M., April 1945, "Quantitative Irradiation Experiments with Neurospora crassa. II. Ultraviolet Irradiation", American Journal of Botany 32(4):226–235; see http://www.estherlederberg.com/Papers.html External links Milislav Demerec Papers, American Philosophical Society National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1895 births 1966 deaths People from Hrvatska Kostajnica Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni American geneticists Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Brookhaven National Laboratory staff Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Place of death missing