Reiji Okazaki
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Japanese biologist
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Reiji Okazaki's Degrees
- PhD Biochemistry Nagoya University
Why Is Reiji Okazaki Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Reiji Okazaki was a pioneer Japanese molecular biologist, known for his research on DNA replication and especially for describing the role of Okazaki fragments along with his wife Tsuneko. Okazaki was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He graduated in 1953 from Nagoya University, and worked as a professor there after 1963. He died of leukemia in 1975 at the age of 44 while traveling to the United States; he had been heavily irradiated in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped.
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