About Elizabeth W. Jones
Lived 1939 – 2008 (aged 69). Elizabeth W. Jones was an editor and geneticist, known for Yeast.
Elizabeth Winifred Jones (March 8, 1939 – June 11, 2008) was an American geneticist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Education Jones earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1960 and her Ph.D. in genetics in 1964, both from the University of Washington. She worked with Herschel L. Roman for her Ph.D., which was the first ever granted by the University of Washington in genetics. She went on to complete her postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Honors and awards Jones was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and the first GSA Excellence in Education Award in 2007. CMU also created the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Experimental or Computational Biology, in honor of Jones' support for undergraduate research.
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Who was Elizabeth W. Jones?
American geneticist and professor
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Elizabeth W. Jones was born on 8 March 1939 in Seattle.
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Elizabeth W. Jones died on 11 June 2008.
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Elizabeth W. Jones was an editor and geneticist.
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Elizabeth W. Jones was known for Yeast.
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