Robin Holliday

Robin Holliday
Born(1932-11-06)6 November 1932
Died9 April 2014(2014-04-09) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
OccupationMolecular biologist
Known forHolliday junction

Robin Holliday FRS FAA (6 November 1932 – 9 April 2014) was a British molecular biologist.[1] Holliday described a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Robin Holliday (1932–2014)". NIMR News. National Institute of Medical Research. 14 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014.
  2. ^ The double life of Holliday junctions Cell Research (2010) 20:611–613. doi: 10.1038/cr.2010.73; published online 25 May 2010
  3. ^ Tom Kirkwood (20 May 2014). "Robin Holliday obituary | Science". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 May 2014.