Jon Beckwith
Jonathan Beckwith | |
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| Born | December 25, 1935 (age 89) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Education | Pasteur Institute, Paris; Harvard University |
| Known for | Isolating the first gene from a bacterial chromosome |
| Awards | Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology; Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences |
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| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
| Academic advisors | Sydney Brenner, Arthur Pardee, François Jacob |
Jonathan Roger Beckwith (born December 25, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American microbiologist and geneticist. He is the American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.