David Botstein

David Botstein

David Botstein (born September 8, 1942 in Zurich , Switzerland ) is an American geneticist . He is one of the masterminds in genetics.

Life

Botstein's parents are from Poland. Before the Second World War, they went to Switzerland to study medicine because of the racist numerus clausus in Poland, and members of their families were victims of the Holocaust. The musicologist Leon Botstein is a brother. Because of the limited job opportunities for foreigners in Switzerland, they moved to the United States after World War II. Botstein trained at Harvard , the University of Michigan , and later became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1990 Botstein moved to Stanford . Together with Patrick O. Brown , he examined yeast and tumor cells using a DNA chip . Botstein has been with Princeton since 2003 .

Botstein was particularly concerned with the application of genetic methods to understand biological functions. Sequencing the human genome was one of his concerns . He has received several awards for his scientific work, including the Rosenstiel Award , the Albany Medical Center Prize , the Dickson Prize in Science , the Gruber Prize for Genetics , the Genetics Society of America Medal , the William Allan Award , the Eli Lilly and Company Research Award , the Dan David Prize , the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal . In 1981 he was accepted into the National Academy of Sciences and 1985 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2008 a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1997, Botstein was President of the Genetics Society of America .

In 2013 he was among the first to win the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences .

Web links

• Website in Princeton (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: David Botstein. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 14, 2018 .