Howard Dalton

Sir Howard Dalton FRS is a British microbiologist.

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In March 2002 he became the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

Dalton graduated from Queen Elizabeth College, University of London (now part of King's College London) in 1965, and went on to study at the University of Sussex with Prof. John Postgate, obtaining his doctorate in 1968. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University and the University of Sussex before joining the University of Warwick as a lecturer, becoming a Professor in 1983.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993, was President of the Society for General Microbiology from 1997 to 2000, and was awarded the Leeuwenhoek medal lecture of the Royal Society in 2000. He was named a Knight Bachelor in the 2007 New Years Honours list [1].