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George Church

Geneticist & Biotech Pioneer — Leader in Genome Sequencing, Synthetic Biology, and CRISPR Applications

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Built a home computer as a child

As a child in Florida, Church taught himself electronics and built a functional home‑brew computer because personal computers were not available; he also learned early programming languages at Phillips Academy later in adolescence.

Source: Profile/biography and oral history

Sent to Phillips Academy — a formative educational turn

Church was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he thrived academically, gained access to computing resources, and learned programming languages such as BASIC, LISP, and FORTRAN—skills he later integrated with biology.

Source: Harvard Magazine profile; Science History oral history interview.

Accelerated undergrad: two degrees in two years at Duke

Church completed bachelor’s degrees in zoology and chemistry at Duke University in two years while undertaking laboratory research and publishing early papers.

Source: Embryo Project Encyclopedia; Harvard Magazine profile.
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