Paul D.N. Hebert | |
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%2c_cropped.jpg) Hebert at the NorBol symposium inTrondheim, Norway, in 2019 | |
| Born | Paul David Neil Hebert 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Awards | Heineken Prize (2018)Benjamin Franklin Award (2024) |
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| Doctoral advisor | John Gibson |
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| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Genetics |
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| Notable ideas | DNA barcoding |
Paul David Neil HebertOC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadianbiologist. He is founder and director of theCentre for Biodiversity Genomics at theUniversity of Guelph inOntario, Canada. He applied the technique invented byCarl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s[1] to arthropods and called itDNA barcoding.[2][3]
Hebert holds the Tier 1Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity[4] at the University of Guelph where he is atenured professor in the Department ofIntegrative Biology.[5] He is anOfficer of the Order of Canada,[6] afellow of theRoyal Society of Canada, and received the 2018Heineken Prize for environmental sciences,[7] and the 2020MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.[8]
In 2021 he was awarded the honorary degree ofDoctor Honoris Causa at theNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[9] Hebert also holds honorary degrees fromWestern University,[10]University of Windsor[11] andUniversity of Waterloo[12] in Canada.
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