Howard Berg

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Howard Berg teaches biophysics at Harvard University and studies motility of E. coli. He has been a member of the molecular and cellular biology department since 1986 and a member of the physics department since 1997. He is also a member of the Rowland Institute at Harvard.

Berg studied as an undergraduate at Caltech and in 1964 earned a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard, with a dissertation on the hydrogen maser directed by Norman Ramsey. While at Harvard he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. He later taught at the University of Colorado and Caltech.

Berg received the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society with Edward Purcell in 1984 for work on the physical limits of bacterial chemoreception.

Berg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.