Peter N. Goodfellow
Peter Neville Goodfellow (born August 4, 1951 ) is a British geneticist .
Goodfellow studied microbiology at Bristol University with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and received his doctorate in 1975 with Walter Bodmer at Oxford University . From 1992 to 1996 he was Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University .
With the Robin Lovell badge he discovered the sex determining region of Y (SRY gene), a gender determining gene. But there is a network of other genes involved in sex determination that Goodfellow also researched.
In 1995 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize with the Lovell Badge and both received the Amory Prize in 1997 .
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1992) and a member of the Academia Europaea (1994) and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2002.
He is married to the physicist Julia Goodfellow (* 1951), who headed the British Science Association from 2009 to 2014.
Web links
- Honored at the Louis Jeantet Prize (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Peter Goodfellow. Academia Europaea, accessed November 9, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goodfellow, Peter N. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goodfellow, Peter Neville (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1951 |