# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-arber
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:19.100Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-arber"
name: "Werner Arber"
slug: "werner-arber"
description: "Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology."
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birthDate: "1929-06-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump