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Jonathan Rothberg

Who

Jonathan Rothberg · Science & Medicine

What

Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.

When

1963, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Jonathan Rothberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.

How & why

Rothberg is an American scientist and entrepreneur who invented high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing, founding 454 Life Sciences (parallel pyrosequencing) and Ion Torrent (semiconductor sequencing), technologies that dramatically lowered the cost of reading genomes. He was born into a Jewish family in New Haven, Connecticut, and is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

Contributions & Sources

Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.

1963

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology