Joachim Messing

Joachim Wilhelm "Jo" Messing (September 10, 1946 – September 13, 2019) was a German-American biologist. He was a professor of molecular biology and the fourth director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University.
Messing died at his home in Somerset, New Jersey on September 13, 2019, three days after his 73rd birthday.