Raymond Alan DixonFRS (born 1 December 1947) is a Britishmicrobiologist at theJohn Innes Centre,[1]Norwich, specialising on the molecular understanding of biologicalnitrogen fixation inbacteria. He was educated at theUniversity of Reading (BSc, 1969) and theUniversity of Sussex (DPhil, 1972).[2]
In 1972, Dixon produced the first engineered nitrogen fixing organism by transferring nitrogen fixation genes fromKlebsilla pneumoniae toEscherichia coli throughconjugation.[3] From 1975, Dixon continued his research at the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, which merged with the John Innes Institute and the Cambridge Laboratory to form the John Innes Centre in 1995.[4]
Dixon was awarded the Fleming Award by theSociety for General Microbiology in 1983 which recognises individuals who 'have made a distinct contribution to microbiology early in their career’.[5] He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1999.[6] In 2019, Dixon was a recipient of the Adam Kondorosi Academia Europea Award for Advanced Research in recognition of “revolutionary discoveries in symbiosis and related fields”.[7][8]
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