Reiji Okazaki | |
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| 岡崎 令治 | |
| Born | Okazaki Reiji October 8, 1930 Hiroshima, Japan |
| Died | August 1, 1975 (aged 44) Japan |
| Education | Nagoya University |
| Known for | Okazaki Fragments |
| Spouse | Tsuneko Okazaki |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular biology |
| Institutions | Nagoya University, Washington University, Stanford University |
Reiji Okazaki (岡崎 令治, Okazaki Reiji, October 8, 1930 – August 1, 1975) was a pioneer Japanese molecular biologist, known for his research on DNA replication and especially for describing the role of Okazaki fragments along with his wife Tsuneko.
Okazaki was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He graduated in 1953 from Nagoya University, and worked as a professor there after 1963. He died of leukemia in Japan in 1975 at the age of 44 after traveling to the United States and Canada; he had been heavily irradiated in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped.[1]