What is Jon Edward Ahlquist?
'''Jon Edward Ahlquist''' (born 27 July 1944,<ref>[[Theodore Wells Pietsch III|Theodore W. Pietsch]] (2012) Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 275</ref> died 7 May 2020<ref>[https://obits.al.com/obituaries/huntsville/obituary.aspx?n=jon-edward-ahlquist&pid=196165408&fhid=10433 Jon Edward Ahlquist obituary], ''The Huntsville Times,'' 9–10 May 2020.</ref>) is an [[United States of America|American]] [[molecular biology|molecular biologist]] and [[ornithology|ornithologist]]. He has worked with [[Charles Sibley]], mostly at [[Yale University]]. By 1987, both Ahlquist and Sibley had left Yale. In 1988, Ahlquist and Sibley were awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.<ref name=Elliot>{{cite web|title=Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_elliot|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=15 February 2011}}</ref> In January 1991 (often listed as 1990), [[Charles Sibley]] and Ahlquist [[publish]]ed ''Phylogeny and Classification of Birds'', which presented a new [[phylogeny]] for [[bird]]s based on the [[DNA]]. In 1999, Ahlquist was retired (Ahlquist, 1999). == References == <references/> {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahlquist, Jon Edward}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American biologists]] [[Category:American ornithologists]]