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Bruce Alberts

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American biochemist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1938 · age 88
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Bruce Michael Alberts is an American biochemist and the Emeritus Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. He has done important work studying the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide.

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2016Fellow of the AACR Academy
2016Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
2014Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
2012National Medal of Science
1995Canada Gairdner International Award
1993Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1975NAS Award in Molecular Biology
honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Bruce Michael Alberts is an American biochemist and the Emeritus Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. He has done important work studying the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide. He is known as an original author of the "canonical, influential, and best-selling scientific textbook" Molecular Biology of the Cell, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for "intellectual leadership and experimental innovation in the field of DNA replication, and for unparalleled dedication to improving science education and promoting science-based public policy" in 2014.

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Born 1938 · age 88
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