Francis Collins

Person · Open Library

Died

1921

Works

11

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Film & TV

Acting · Staunton, Virginia, USA

Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Known for

• Jonathan & Jesus — Self2024
• The Vaccine: Conquering COVID — Self2021
• Explained — Self (archive footage)2018
• Bill Nye: Science Guy — Self2017
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self2015
• Finding Your Roots — Self2012
• The Weight of the Nation — Comentarista2012
• Religulous — Self2008
• CNN Special Report — Self1980
• 60 Minutes — Self1968

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1950

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

99

Total plays

2,017

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

   · 1996 · cited 18,867x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,623x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,988x

4. UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age

   · 2015 · cited 12,412x

5. Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures

   · 2000 · cited 10,946x

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Quotes

• “The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.”
• “There are answers that science isn’t able to provide about the natural world—the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I’m interested in the whys. I find many of those answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.”
• “Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”
• “"We'll get closer to perfect kids from caring families and good education than we'll ever get from genetics." 2005 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript, https://www.genome.gov/DNADay/q.cfm?aid=5419&year=2005”
• “Reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.”
• “I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.”

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Key facts

President

Joe Biden

Preceded by

Eric Lander

Succeeded by

Arati Prabhakar

Deputy

Lawrence A. Tabak

Born

Francis Sellers Collins , ( 1950-04-14 ) April 14, 1950 (age 76) , Staunton, Virginia , U.S.

Spouse

Diane Baker

Education

University of Virginia ( BS ), Yale University ( MS , PhD ), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ( MD )

Fields

Molecular genetics

Institutions

University of Michigan National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health

Thesis

Semiclassical theory of vibrationally inelastic scattering, with application to H+ + H₂ (1974)

Doctoral advisor

James Cross

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