Claude Alvin Villee Jr. (9 February 1917, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – 7 August 2003) was an American biologist and long-time teacher at

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. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Villee studied in the

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and later the

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. He began teaching in 1941 at Berkeley as a research assistant before becoming an assistant professor at the

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. He wrote his first book during this period, on request: a biology textbook that eventually saw eight editions and translation into six languages. Thereafter, Villee worked at Harvard University as a teacher from 1946 until his retirement as Andelot Professor of Biological Chemistry in 1991. During this time, he authored or co-authored 350 publications.

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