George B. Johnson
Dr George B. Johnson (born 11 June 1942,Dr. George Johnson's CV (1998-2015). Retrieved September, 2015, from: http://biologywriter.com/ in Newport News, Virginia) is a science educator who for many years has written a weekly column "On Science" in the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''. For over 30 years he was a biology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University and a genetics professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He has authored 44 scientific papers and ten high school and college biology texts. Over 3 million students have learned biology from these texts. Education Johnson got his Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in 1964, and his Master of Arts, M.A. in biology, also at Dartmouth College in 1966. He was granted his Ph.D. in population biology from Stanford University in 1972, his thesis being on genetic variation in alpine butterflies. Academic career Johnson was hired as an assistant professor of biology at Was ...
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Newport News, Virginia
Newport News () is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. The area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. In 1881, fifteen years of rapid development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opene ...
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