Sir David Alan Hopwood was born on 19 August 1933 and is a British microbiologist and geneticist.
10 Facts About David Hopwood
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David Hopwood served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961.
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David Hopwood later became John Innes Professor of Genetics at the University of East Anglia.
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David Hopwood is an Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the John Innes Centre.
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David Hopwood was awarded the Gabor Medal in 1995 "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of Streptomyces coelicolor A3, and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of polyketide synthesis".
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David Hopwood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 and delivered their Leeuwenhoek Lecture in 1987.
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David Hopwood is the author of Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers.
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Professor David Hopwood has done outstanding work on the genetics of actinomycetes.
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David Hopwood discovered genetic recombination of Streptomyces and developed original systems of genetic mapping which led him to the demonstration of a circular linkage group.
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David Hopwood now has an established international reputation as the leading pioneer and authority in what has become a very important aspect of microbial genetics.