About Jonathan Hodgkin
Born 1949. Jonathan Hodgkin is a biochemist.
Education Hodgkin was educated at the University of Oxford where he graduated in 1971. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1974 for research on the genetics of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
Career and research Hodgkin was a scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Hodgkin was one of the earliest researchers to explore the genetics of development in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. In 2011, he received The Genetics Society Medal. He was awarded the Edward Novitski Prize by the Genetics Society of America in 2017.
Personal life
Hodgkin is the son of Nobel laureate Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and the editor Marni Hodgkin.
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