Joseph Seth Alper (born 1946) is a former professor of
chemistry at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston
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. He is known for his work analyzing
genetic discrimination and other issues related to
human genetics
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research.
[ He is a founding member of the Genetic Screening Study Group. He received his bachelor's degree from ]Harvard University
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in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Yale University
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in 1968. He did his postdoc in the laboratory of Robert Silbey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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from 1968 to 1970.
References
1946 births
Living people
20th-century American chemists
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
Harvard College alumni
Yale University alumni
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