Sherman Morton Weissman is an American scientist and the Sterling Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine.
A mentor to Francis Collins, Weissman elucidated the nucleic acid sequence of the SV40 genome.
A week later, Belgian researcher Walter Fiers published the genome sequence in another journal.
Until 1+1⁄2 years earlier, the Weissman and Fiers teams had each been working on separate halves of the sequence.
Jonathan's mother is Myrna Weissman, a professor of epidemiology in psychiatry at Columbia University.