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American researcher and businessman

United StatesFoundersBorn 1936 · age 90
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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.

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2007Perkin Medal
2004Albany Medical Center Prize
2004Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
2001National Inventors Hall of Fame
2000Biotechnology Heritage Award
1996Lemelson-MIT Prize
1990National Medal of Science
1989National Medal of Technology and Innovation
1983IRI Achievement Award
1980Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Winthrop-Sears Medal

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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, he had performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of E. coli with especially useful properties.

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United States
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Born 1936 · age 90
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