Facts: - doctoral students: patrick o. brown - thesis url: http://search.proquest.com/docview/302206095 - known for: discovery of topoisomerases - fields: biochemistry - thesis year: 1966 - death date: 19 march 2006 - workplaces: university of california , berkeley - academic advisors: arthur kornberg - thesis title: the l-l-glycerophosphate regulon in escherichia coli - name: nicholas r. cozzarelli - nationality: american - birth place: jersey city , new jersey - alma mater: princeton university harvard medical school Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nicholas r. cozzarelli .
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nicholas robert cozzarelli -lrb- march 26 , 1938 , in jersey city , new jersey -- march 19 , 2006 -rrb- was an american biochemist at the university of california , berkeley , and former editor-in-chief of '' proceedings of the national academy of sciences '' .