Jon Beckwith
Jonathan Roger Beckwith (born December 25, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) 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.
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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 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology; Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences; member, National Academy of Sciences |
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| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
| Academic advisors | Sydney Brenner, Arthur Pardee, François Jacob |
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