Julian Edmund Davies (January 1932 - February 2025) a British-born microbiologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia.
Davies began his independent professional life in 1959 as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the Manchester College of Science and Technology.
Although he officially retired in 1997, he served as director of the UBC Life Sciences Centre from 2006 to 2011 and maintained an active research program until 2020.
His subsequent work at Harvard introduced him to bacterial genetics and molecular biology (he credits Walter Gilbert and Luigi Gorini for this education).
[3] These broad-ranging studies led to a deeper understanding of the bacterial ribosome[4] and of how antibiotic resistance genes arise and spread in both bacteria and yeast.