Leigh Alexander Burgoyne AM (born 1939) is an Australian molecular biologist.
He is emeritus professor at Flinders University.
The 1973 paper Burgoyne co-authored with Dean Hewish was important in developing chromatin theory.
[1] Burgoyne became a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to science, particularly through the development of DNA technologies.
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