Jonathan Beckwith | |
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| Born | December 25, 1935 (age 88) 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)[1] 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.