John K. Hewitt | |
Birth Name: | John Keith Hewitt |
Birth Date: | 14 July 1952 |
Birth Place: | Hampshire, England |
Citizenship: | United States |
Fields: | Psychology Behavioral genetics |
Workplaces: | University of Colorado Boulder |
Alma Mater: | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of London University of Birmingham |
Thesis Title: | The Genetic Control of Activity, Reactivity and Learning in a Population of Wild Rats (rattus Norvegicus). |
Thesis Year: | 1978 |
Academic Advisors: | David Fulker, Lindon Eaves |
Awards: | Dobzhansky Award (2008), James Shields Award (2016) |
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John Keith Hewitt (born July 14, 1952) is a British-American behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics.[1] He was the Director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics from 2000 - 2021. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1996.
Hewitt is the editor of the journal Behavior Genetics and past president of the Behavior Genetics Association.[2] [3] He received the Dobzhansky Award of the Behavioral Genetics Association in 2008 and the James Shields Award of the International Society for Twin Studies in 2016.[4]