Robin Holliday

Robin Holliday
Born(1932-11-06)6 November 1932
Died9 April 2014(2014-04-09) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
OccupationMolecular biologist
Known forHolliday junction

Robin Holliday FRS FAA (6 November 1932 – 9 April 2014) was a British molecular biologist. Holliday described a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.

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