Raymond Dixon
Raymond Alan Dixon FRS (born 1 December 1947) is a British microbiologist at the John Innes Centre,[1] Norwich, specialising on the molecular understanding of biological nitrogen fixation in bacteria. He was educated at the University of Reading (BSc, 1969) and the University of Sussex (DPhil, 1972).[2]
In 1972, Dixon produced the first engineered nitrogen fixing organism by transferring nitrogen fixation genes from Klebsilla pneumoniae to Escherichia coli through conjugation.[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 the Society for General Microbiology in 1983 which recognises individuals who 'have made a distinct contribution to microbiology early in their career’.[5] He was elected a Fellow 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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- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ Dixon, R. A.; Postgate, J. R. (May 1972). "Genetic Transfer of Nitrogen Fixation from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli". Nature. 237 (5350): 102–103. doi:10.1038/237102a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
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- ^ Society, Microbiology. "Fleming Prize Winners". microbiologysociety.org. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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- ^ "Academy of Europe: The AE-Adam Kondorosi Prize". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Prestigious prize hails half a century of ground-breaking research". John Innes Centre. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2023.