Robin Holliday, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Robin Holliday

British molecular biologist known for proposing Holliday junctions

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1932

Date of Death: 09-Apr-2014

Profession: sculptor, geneticist, molecular biologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Robin Holliday (6 November 1932 – 9 April 2014) was a British molecular biologist.
Holliday described a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi.
That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.