Joachim Messing, an internationally renowned Rutgers University scientist who sought to end hunger, protect the environment and advance medicine, died on September 13. He was 73. Dr. Messing, director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers since 1988, made pioneering contributions that underpin the modern fields of genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology. He invented shotgun sequencing of DNA, an approach that vastly empowered the advance of the genomic era of biology. Dr. Messing did not patent this discovery, so that further scientific discovery would continue unimpeded. And it did. More.
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