Biography:Paul D. N. Hebert
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,_cropped.jpg) Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2019 | |
| Born | Paul David Neil Hebert 1947 (age 76–77) Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Awards | Heineken Prize (2018) Benjamin Franklin Award (2024) |
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| Doctoral advisor | John Gibson |
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| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Genetics |
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| Notable ideas | DNA barcoding |
Paul David Neil Hebert OC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s[1] to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.[2][3]
Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity[4] at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.[5] He is an Officer of the Order of Canada,[6] a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2018 Heineken Prize for environmental sciences, [7] and the 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.[8]
In 2021 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[9] Hebert also holds honorary degrees from Western University,[10] University of Windsor[11] and University of Waterloo[12] in Canada.
References
- ↑ Woese, C R; Kandler, O; Wheelis, M L (June 1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 87 (12): 4576–4579. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMID 2112744. Bibcode: 1990PNAS...87.4576W.
- ↑ "The Father of DNA Barcoding" (in en-US). 2008-02-01. https://scienceline.org/2008/02/tweed-bio-dnabarcoding/.
- ↑ "DNA Barcoding Pioneer Wins Global Research Prize" (in en). 2018-04-24. https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/04/dna-barcoding-pioneer-wins-global-research-prize/.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Industry Canada (2012-11-29). "Canada Research Chairs". http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=556.
- ↑ "Paul Hebert | Department of Integrative Biology". https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/hebert.
- ↑ Hebert, Paul. "Officer of the Order of Canada". https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-10772.
- ↑ "Paul D.N. Hebert". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/heineken-prizes/paul-d-n-hebert.
- ↑ "Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020" (in en-US). https://midoripress.net/en/topics/midorinews/5974/.
- ↑ "Honorary Doctors - NTNU". https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors.
- ↑ "Western News - Hebert: Go forth and make magic" (in en-CA). 2018-06-13. https://news.westernu.ca/2018/06/hebert-go-forth-make-magic/.
- ↑ "Paul Hebert | DailyNews". https://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/rehse/electrical/tags/paul-hebert.
- ↑ "Waterloo will honour adviser to Governor General at fall convocation" (in en). 2011-09-20. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/waterloo-will-honour-adviser-governor-general-fall-convocation.
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