Jane B. Reece
Reece is an American scientist and textbook author. Along with American biologist Neil Campbell, she wrote the widely used Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks. Following Campbell's death in 2004, she collaborated with American biologist Lisa Urry to update subsequent editions.
Jane B. Reece
- Name
- Jane Reece
- Occupation
- Biologist
- Education
- Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
- Known for
- Co-authoring Campbell Biology Studying bacterial recombination
- Born
- 1944
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Languages
- English
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Reece is an American scientist and textbook author. Along with American biologist Neil Campbell, she wrote the widely used Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks. Following Campbell's death in 2004, she collaborated with American biologist Lisa Urry to update subsequent editions.
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The textbook is widely acclaimed and is used in 90 percent of AP Biology classes and 60 percent of introductory college biology courses. The textbook has been used by over 14 million students and has been translated into over 20 languages.
Reece studied at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley and Rutgers University. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with City University of New York. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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• Name — Jane Reece • Occupation — Biologist • Fields — Biology • Workplaces — Stanford University • Education — Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) • Known for — Co-authoring Campbell Biology Studying bacterial recombination
Early life and education
Early life and education
Reece received an AB in Biology from Harvard University, an MS in microbiology from Rutgers University, and a PhD in bacteriology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The RecE pathway of genetic combination in Escherichia Coli (1981). Having completed her PhD, she stayed at UC Berkeley for a while as a postdoctoral researcher, before accepting tenure at Stanford University as a researcher. Her research mainly focused on genetic recombination in bacteria.
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Career
Reece has taught at various colleges, including Middlesex County College (New Jersey) and Queensborough Community College (New York City). She is the author or co-author of several textbooks at Benjamin Cummings, at which place she has served as an editor since she joined in 1978. Notable among her works is The World of the Cell, third edition, which she co-authored with Wayne Becker and M.F. Poesie. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden.
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What the record establishes about Jane B. Reece is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Reece is recorded with the occupation literary editor. Reece is recorded as biologist, university teacher, geneticist, writer and literary editor.
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1944
Jane B. Reece was born on 15 April 1944.
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