Biochemist Bruce Alberts, an American known best for his seminal textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell and an advocate of international scientific cooperation, will take over as editor-in-chief of the journal Science beginning in March.
Alberts served as president of the US National Academy of Sciences from 1993 to 2005, and is currently co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, an Amsterdam-based international collaboration of science academies from 15 countries. He is based at the University of California, San Francisco.
Alberts replaces Donald Kennedy, a biologist and former president of Stanford University in California, who has edited the journal since 2000.
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Science appoints Bruce Alberts as editor-in-chief. Nature 450, 1140 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/4501140e
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