Peter Goodfellow
| Peter Goodfellow | |
|---|---|
| Born | Peter Neville Goodfellow 4 August 1951 |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater |
University of Bristol (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | Biochemical and genetic studies of human tissue antigens (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Bodmer |
| Notable awards | FRS (1992) |
| Spouse | Julia Mary Lansdall (m. 1972) |
| Children | Two |
Peter Neville Goodfellow, FRS (born 4 August 1951) is a British geneticist best known for his work on sex determination and the SRY gene that encodes testis determining factor. He was Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1996.
Goodfellow completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology at the University of Bristol in 1972 and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1975 for research supervised by Walter Bodmer.
Goodfellow was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992. In 2002, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon DSc) degree from the University of Bristol.
In 1972 he married Julia Mary Lansdall, former CEO of the BBSRC. They have a son and a daughter.
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