Portrait of Jean Beggs
Date
2023
Sitter
Jean Duthie Beggs (British) , Geneticist
Creator
Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
Object type
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Jean Beggs, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh, photographed at her home, July 2023.
Jean Beggs, British geneticist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998. She was awarded the Gabor Medal in 2003 for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology.
Jean Beggs, British geneticist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998. She was awarded the Gabor Medal in 2003 for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology.