Britten, Roy J.

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Name (Latin)
Britten, Roy J.
Date of birth
1919-10-01
Date of death
2012-01-21
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 48925785
Wikidata: Q7373005
Library of congress: no2003102930
Sources of Information
  • Los Angeles times WWW site, Feb. 21, 2012(Roy J. Britten; b. Roy John Britten, Oct. 1, 1919, Washington [D.C.?]; d. Jan. 21 [2012], Costa Mesa [Calif.], at 92; Caltech biologist; doctorate in nuclear physics, Princeton Univ.)
  • Papers from a National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Biology of Developmental Transcription Control, 1996:p. 9307 (Roy J. Britten)

Wikipedia description:

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.

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