Bruce Alberts
Born in 1938. American biochemist known for his work in science public policy. Alberts, noted particularly for his study of the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide, is Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and United States Science Envoy to Pakistan and Indonesia. Alberts was the president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1993 to 2005 and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Alberts attended and graduated from Harvard College, with a degree in biochemical sciences, and earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1965. After graduating, Alberts went to the University of Geneva as a postdoctoral fellow to work with Richard Epstein on genes involved in DNA replication of phage T4. In 1966, Alberts joined the Department of Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor. In 1972, he became an Associate Professor and in 1974 a full Professor. He has served in different capacities on a number of advisory and editorial boards, including as chair of the Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council. Until his election as President of the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 he was president-elect of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In March 2008, it was announced that Alberts had accepted the position of Editor-in-Chief of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\'s flagship publication, Science. In his June 4, 2009 speech at Cairo University, US President Barack Obama announced a new Science Envoy program as part of a \"new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.\" In January 2010, Bruce Alberts, Ahmed Zewail, and Elias Zerhouni became the first US science envoys to Islam, visiting Muslim-majority countries from North Africa to Southeast Asia.
