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Richard Losick

American molecular biologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1943 · age 83

Richard Pero Losick is an American molecular biologist. He is the Emeritus Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University and was from 2002 to 2024 a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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A life in dates

2012Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAward2009Canada Gairdner International AwardAward2007Selman A. Waksman Award in MicrobiologyAward1943Born

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Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize2012
Canada Gairdner International Award2009
Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology2007
National Medal of Science
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards

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He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.

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Born 1943 · age 83