Roy John Britten

Roy John Britten
Born(1919-10-01)1 October 1919
Washington, D.C.
Died21 January 2012 (2012-01-22) (aged 92)
Costa Mesa, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationUpper Canada College
University of Virginia (B.S. Physics)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. Physics), Princeton University (Ph.D. 1951)
Known forDiscovery of repeated DNA sequences
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular Biology
InstitutionsCarnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Thesis The Scattering of 32 MeV Protons from Several Elements

Roy John Britten (1 October 1919 – 21 January 2012) was an American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in the genomes of eukaryotic organisms, and later on the evolution of the genome.[1]

  1. ^ Davidson, E. H. (2012). "Roy J. Britten (1919-2012)". Science. 335 (6073): 1183. Bibcode:2012Sci...335.1183D. doi:10.1126/science.1220828. PMID 22403381. S2CID 206540785.