L. Nicholas Ornston

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Leo Nicholas Ornston (born 1940) is an American microbiologist who researched the evolution of microbes. He was a faculty member at Yale University from 1969–2011, where he was made the director of its Center for Biological Transformation. He has held the position of editor-in-chief at ''Applied and Environmental Microbiology'' and of co-editor at ''Annual Review of Microbiology''. Provided by Wikipedia