George B. Johnson | |
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| Born | June 11, 1942 Newport News, Virginia, United States |
| Occupation | Academic, science writer |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College Stanford University |
| Period | 1965-present |
| Subject | Explaining science |
Dr George B. Johnson (born 11 June 1942,[1] in Newport News, Virginia) is a science educator who for many years has written a weekly column "On Science" in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. For over 30 years he was a biology professor at Washington University and a genetics professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He has authored 44 scientific papers and ten high school and college biology texts. Over 3 million students have learned biology from these texts.