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Leigh Burgoyne

Australian molecular biologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ124357201 ↗
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Leigh Alexander Burgoyne (born 1939) is an Australian molecular biologist. He is emeritus professor at Flinders University.

The 1973 paper Burgoyne co-authored with Dean Hewish was important in developing chromatin theory.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leigh Burgoyne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.