Reiji Okazaki

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Reiji Okazaki (岡崎令治 Okazaki Reiji, 19301975) was a Japanese molecular biologist known for his research in the DNA replication and the discovery of Okazaki fragments.

Reiji Okazaki was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He graduated in 1953 from Nagoya University, and worked as a professor there after 1963.

Okazaki died of leukemia only a few years after his discovery — he was in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped.

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