Jerzy Jurka, Polish biologist (born 1950)

Jerzy Jurka

Polish-American biologist (1950–2014)

Jerzy Władysław Jurka was a Polish–American computational and molecular biologist known for his pioneering work on repetitive DNA and transposable elements (TEs) in eukaryotic genomes. He served as the assistant director of research at the Linus Pauling Institute prior to…