Jonathan Rothberg
Jonathan Rothberg · Science & Medicine
Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.
1963, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
United States
Jonathan Rothberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.
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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Inventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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