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Ad Bax

He worked as a postdoc with Gary Maciel at Colorado State University, before joining the NIH's Laboratory of Chemical Physics in 1983.

Arthur Komar

Later in 1957, he went to Syracuse University as a postdoc to research quantum gravity - collaborating with Peter Bergmann, and remained at Syracuse as assistant professor and associate professor, until 1963 when he left to join the Physics Department at Yeshiva University in New York City.

David A. Booth

His first employment within Psychology was as a postdoc at the Yale University Graduate School in 1964-6, initiating work on metabolic biochemistry and neuropharmacology in the laboratories of Neal E. Miller on his funds from NIH.

David Milstein

While a postdoc, Milstein and his adviser, John Kenneth Stille, discovered the Stille reaction for new carbon-carbon bond formation using a palladium catalyst to couple an organic halide with an organotin compound.

Denis Duboule

After questioning Karl Illmensee's claims of having cloned a mouse, Duboule departed to work as a postdoc and then a group leader at the University of Strasbourg, with Pierre Chambon.

Detlef Weigel

In work led by former postdoc Kirsten Bomblies, now an Assistant Professor at Harvard, they could show that in certain hybrid offspring, specific gene products contributed by one of the parents may be inappropriately recognized as foreign and pathogenic, and thus trigger pervasive cell death throughout the plant.

Douglas H. Turner

Deciding that he liked science more than war, he turned down the opportunity to continue as an active duty officer and went to the University of California to postdoc with Ignacio Tinoco, Jr..

Jerry Goldstein

As a postdoc at Rice University (2000-2003), Goldstein’s job was to interpret and model the brand-new space weather data being obtained by the IMAGE satellite (launched in March 2000).

Kirsten Bomblies

As a postdoc with Detlef Weigel at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, she began to study how individuals interact with other organisms and to examine selection forces within and across species boundaries, accessions, chronological gradients and other delineations.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Sharon R. Long

She studied at Harvey Mudd College, Caltech (B.S.) and Yale (Ph.D.) in biochemistry and genetics, and began her research on plants and symbiosis while a postdoc at Frederick M Ausubel's lab in Harvard University.

Steve Joordens

Joordens earned his bachelor's degree in Psychology at University of New Brunswick in 1989 and gained his PhD in Psychology at University of Waterloo in 1994 and postdoc at McMaster University on models and empirical studies of human memory.


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