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| predecessor = [[:En:Raynard S. Kington|Raynard Kington]] {{small|(Acting)}}
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| birth_name = Francis Sellers Collins
Collins juga menulis sejumlah buku dalam bidang sains, kedokteran, dan agama, termasuk buku terlaris menurut ''[[New York Times]]'', ''[[The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief]]''.
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== Masa muda ==
Collins dilahirkan di Staunton, Virginia, thesebagai youngestyang oftermuda fourdari sonsempat ofputra Fletcher Collins anddan Margaret James Collins. RaisedIa ondibesarkan adi smallsebuah farmpertanian inkecil di Virginia's [[Shenandoah Valley]], CollinsVirginia, wasdengan [[:En:home schooled]]|pendidikan di untilrumah]] thesampai sixthkelas gradeenam.<ref>Google Book Search [[The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=JcMCmBnpHGsC&dq=%22language+of+god%22+collins+homeschool&pg=PP1&ots=qQM1QRH3B5&source=bn&sig=mdeuF90uw_WdkUokgoXgrtMYBX8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA13,M1 Chapter 1]</ref> HeKemudian attendedia bersekolah di [[:En:Robert E. Lee High School (Staunton, Virginia)|Robert E. Lee High School]] indi [[Staunton, Virginia]].<!-- Through most of his high school and college years he aspired to be a chemist, and he had little interest in what he then considered the "messy" field of biology. What he referred to as his "formative education" was received at the [[University of Virginia]], where he earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[Chemistry]] in 1970. He went on to graduate as a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in [[Physical Chemistry]] at [[Yale University]] in 1974. While at Yale, a course in biochemistry sparked his interest in the subject. After consulting with his mentor from the University of Virginia, Carl Trindle, he changed fields and enrolled in medical school at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], earning a [[Doctor of Medicine]] degree there in 1977.
From 1978 to 1981, Collins served a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at [[North Carolina Memorial Hospital]] in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]]. He then returned to Yale, where he was a [[Fellow]] in Human Genetics at the medical school from 1981 to 1984.
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