Jonathan Karl Pritchard is an English-born professor of genetics at Stanford University, best known for his development of the STRUCTURE algorithm for studying population structure and his work on human genetic variation and evolution.
[10] Pritchard conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Donnelly at the University of Oxford.
[3] He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator position in 2008.
Pritchard ran track and cross country for Pennsylvania State University from 1989 to 1994.
In part because of his running experience, he appeared in the 1998 movie Without Limits portraying David Bedford, an English distance runner who participated in the 1972 Munich Olympics.