Patricia Jacobs

Who is Patricia Jacobs?

Patricia Ann Jacobs FRS FMedSci is a British geneticist, fellow of the Royal Society. She is Professor of Human Genetics in University of Southampton at Salisbury District Hospital. In 1993, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1959, she was the first to describe a chromosomal abnormality in humans, the additional X chromosome in Klinefelter syndrome and in 1981, she received the William Allan Memorial Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. She was the first recipient of the KS&A Patricia Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Kingdom charity Knowledge Support & Action. In February 2010 Ms Jacobs was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the induction ceremony took place in April. In 2011 Ms. Jacobs received the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.