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Paul D.N. HebertOC FRSC
Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2019
Born	Paul David Neil Hebert 1947 (age 77–78) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Awards	Heineken Prize (2018) Benjamin Franklin Award (2024)
Academic background
Alma mater	Queen's University University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	John Gibson
Academic work
Discipline	Biology
Sub-discipline	Genetics
Institutions	University of Windsor University of Guelph
Doctoral students	Melania Cristescu T. Ryan Gregory
Notable ideas	DNA barcoding

Paul David Neil Hebert OC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.

Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2018 Heineken Prize for environmental sciences, and the 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.

In 2021 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Hebert also holds honorary degrees from Western University, University of Windsor and University of Waterloo in Canada.

References

1. Woese, C R; Kandler, O; Wheelis, M L (June 1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 87 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744.
2. "The Father of DNA Barcoding". Scienceline. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
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8. "Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020". The MIDORI Press. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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12. "Waterloo will honour adviser to Governor General at fall convocation". Waterloo News. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2022.

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