Biologist Leroy Hood to join Inventors Hall of Fame

His sequencer helped map genome

Leroy Hood, the world-renowned molecular biologist who created a DNA sequencer to map the human genome, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Akron, Ohio, this spring.

By JOHN COOK
P-I REPORTER

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