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Bruce N. Ames is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ames studied with George Beadle at the California Institute of Technology at the beginning of the revolution in molecular biology. He joined the National Institutes of Health in 1953 as a fellow, and became Chief of the Microbial Genetics section in 1962. In 1968, he joined the faculty in biochemistry and genetics at UC Berkeley, where he developed the Ames test of the mutagenic potential of chemicals. In 2000, he became a senior research scientist at the Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute until his retirement in 2018. With over 550 publications, he is among the top two hundred most highly cited scientists across all disciplines.