W. Ford Doolittle
American biochemist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1941 · age 84
Warren Ford Doolittle is an evolutionary and molecular biologist. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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2023Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward2013Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and EngineeringAward1985Guggenheim FellowshipAward1941Born30 November 1941
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He is also the winner of the 2013 Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the 2017 Killam Prize. In June 2025 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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Born 1941 · age 84
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