Paul D. N. Hebert

{{Short description|Canadian biologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Paul D.N. Hebert | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = Paul Hebert- Revealing Planetary Biodiversity through DNA Barcodes (22697914919), cropped.jpg | alt = | caption = Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2019 | birth_name = Paul David Neil Hebert | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Kingston, Ontario, Canada | death_date =  | death_place = | home_town = | spouse = | partner = | awards = Heineken Prize (2018) Benjamin Franklin Award (2024) | alma_mater = {{ubl | Queen's University | University of Cambridge}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = John Gibson | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Biology | sub_discipline = Genetics | workplaces = {{ubl | University of Windsor | University of Guelph}} | doctoral_students = {{ublist|Melania Cristescu|T. Ryan Gregory}} | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = DNA barcoding | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Paul David Neil Hebert''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Woese |first1=C R |last2=Kandler |first2=O |last3=Wheelis |first3=M L |title=Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |date=June 1990 |volume=87 |issue=12 |pages=4576–4579 |doi=10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576 |pmid=2112744 |pmc=54159 |bibcode=1990PNAS...87.4576W |doi-access=free }}</ref> to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scienceline.org/2008/02/tweed-bio-dnabarcoding/|title=The Father of DNA Barcoding|date=2008-02-01|website=Scienceline|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/04/dna-barcoding-pioneer-wins-global-research-prize/|title=DNA Barcoding Pioneer Wins Global Research Prize|date=2018-04-24|website=U of G News|language=en|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref>

Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=556|title=Canada Research Chairs|last=Government of Canada|first=Industry Canada|date=2012-11-29|website=www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref> at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/hebert|title=Paul Hebert {{!}} Department of Integrative Biology|website=www.uoguelph.ca|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref> He is an Officer of the Order of Canada,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-10772|title=Officer of the Order of Canada|last=Hebert|first=Paul}}</ref> a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2018 Heineken Prize for environmental sciences,<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/heineken-prizes/paul-d-n-hebert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522190622/https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/heineken-prizes/paul-d-n-hebert |title=Paul D.N. Hebert |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> and the 2020 [https://midoripress.net/en/topics/midorinews/5974/ MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020|url=https://midoripress.net/en/topics/midorinews/5974/|access-date=2020-09-02|website=The MIDORI Press|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2021, he was awarded the honorary degree of ''Doctor Honoris Causa'' at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Honorary Doctors - NTNU|url=https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors|access-date=2021-09-29|website=www.ntnu.edu}}</ref> Hebert also holds honorary degrees from Western University,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-13 |title=Western News - Hebert: Go forth and make magic |url=https://news.westernu.ca/2018/06/hebert-go-forth-make-magic/ |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=Western News |language=en-CA}}</ref> University of Windsor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Hebert {{!}} DailyNews |url=https://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/rehse/electrical/tags/paul-hebert |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=www.uwindsor.ca}}</ref> and University of Waterloo<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-20 |title=Waterloo will honour adviser to Governor General at fall convocation |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/waterloo-will-honour-adviser-governor-general-fall-convocation |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=Waterloo News |language=en}}</ref> in Canada.

In 2025, he received the Sustainability Award, presented by the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), for outstanding research and development in the field of biodiversity. He developed DNA barcoding, a method to rapidly identify species, which is vital for global conservation efforts.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Sustainability Award 2025 |url=https://www.nobelsustainabilitytrust.org/the-sustainability-award-2025 |website=Nobel Sustainability Trust}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hebert, Paul D. N.}} Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:Carcinologists Category:Canadian evolutionary biologists Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Category:Academic staff of the University of Guelph Category:Canada Research Chairs Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:Winners of the Heineken Prize