Philip Palmer Green, Date of Birth

Philip Palmer Green

biologist

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1950

Profession: mathematician, biologist, university teacher, bioinformatician, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Philip Palmer Green is a theoretical and computational biologist noted for developing important algorithms and procedures used in Gene mapping and DNA sequencing.
He earned his doctorate from Berkeley in mathematics in 1976 with a dissertation on C*-algebra under the direction of Marc Rieffel, but transitioned from pure mathematics into applied work in biology and bioinformatics.
Green has obtained numerous important results, including in developing Phred, a widely used DNA trace analyzer, in mapping techniques, and in genetic analysis.
Green was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001 and won the Gairdner Award in 2002.