Daniel Branton

Daniel Branton (born January 13, 1932) is an American cell biologist.

Branton earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Cornell University, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a PhD in plant physiology.^[1] He taught at UC–Berkeley until joining the Harvard University faculty in 1973,^[1] where he later held the Higgins Professorship of Biology.^[2] In 1985, Branton was president of the American Society for Cell Biology.^[3]

He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970,^[4] and was elected to membership within the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1974 and 1981, respectively.^[1][5]