Norman Richard Pace Jr. (born 1942)[1] is an American biochemist, and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado.
[4] When he was a high school student, Pace attended a summer science program at Indiana University in which he worked in the laboratory of microbiologist Dean Fraser.
In 1975, Pace was promoted to associate professor of biophysics and genetics at the University of Colorado Medical Center and he dropped his affiliation with the National Jewish Hospital.
He was bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indiana University on May 4, 2018, and gave the inaugural Norman R. Pace Lecture on May 7, 2018.
Particularly this was the ability to study microbes that weren't easy to culture in the lab, by extracting nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) from environmental samples.