Hendrik Poinar (born 1969), a American evolutionary biologist specializing in ancient DNA, son of George
In 1992 a team consisting of Poinar, his wife, his son Hendrik, and Dr. Raúl J. Cano of California Polytechnic State University successfully extracted insect DNA from a Lebanese weevil in amber that was 125 million years old, but more recent studies of ancient DNA cast doubt on the results.
The amber specimen is currently residing in the Poinar Amber Collection housed at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.