Alan C. Burton

Upon completing his Ph.D. under the late Professor Alan C. Burton, FRSC, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Joseph Rotblat in the Physics Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London.In 1958 he became a member of the Department of Biophysics at the University of Chicago.It was there that he and his co-workers made some chance observations in radiation microbiology that led them to postulate the existence of DNA repair mechanisms.

In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor of Biophysics in the University of California at Berkeley.