Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts

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College and Lab Years

This gallery runs from 1956 to 1995, including years as an undergrad and grad student at Harvard, postdoc work in the lab of Professors A. Tissieres and R. Epstein, at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire in Geneva, Switzerland, and then years as a faculy member at Princeton and then the University of California at San Francisco.

Bruce at Lab Picnic, Princeton, 1976.
Bruce explaining energy and light to Spring Valley School first graders Casey Harper, Justina Cardenas and Jamal Parsons, for the UCSF SEP program, while Biochem Department Chair, 1992.
Bruce explaining energy and light to Spring Valley School first graders Casey Harper, Justina Cardenas and Jamal Parsons, for the UCSF SEP program, while Biochem Department Chair, 1992.
The lab at Princeton 1969
Bruce Alberts in his UCSF lab at Parnassus in the 1980s.
Barbara McClintock at the train station at Cold Spring Harbor, seeing her friend Bruce off, late 1980s.
Dragged down by textbook writing, about 1987
Alberts Family near Kilimanjaro, 1986.
At the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,341 feet, with guides and sons Michael and Jon, 1986.
At the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,341 feet, with guides and sons Michael and Jon, 1986.
Bruce in his UCSF lab at Parnassus in the 1980s.
Bruce with John Sedat (not in photo) and Liz Blackburn and Sherpa guide in Nepal, 1978.
Bruce Alberts in the lab in 1996.
Bruce Alberts in the lab in 1996.
Barbara McClintock at her corn field in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, with Bruce's daughter Beth Alberts, 1979.
Bruce Alberts, John Sedat and Sherpa Guide.
Bruce Alberts with Jo and Pat O'Farrell and son Michael at California mountaintop.
Brittanica entry on the cell while snowed in in a tent in Alaska, with Gavin Borden, 1986.
Figure from paper with Jack Barry
Alberts Warm Room obituary by Marc Kirschner.
Science as a Way of Knowing Conference with John A. Moore, 1989.

 

Current Work

Why science education is more important than most scientists think

Concrete steps to diversify the scientific workforce

Improving support for young biomedical scientists

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