Howard Temin
American geneticist · United States · Doctors · Lived 1934 to 1994 · aged 59
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Something wrong?Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.
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1994Died9 February 19941992National Medal of ScienceAward1988Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1987Doctor Honoris Causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityAward1975Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1974AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer ResearchAwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAwardCanada Gairdner International AwardAward1973Pfizer Award in Enzyme ChemistryAward1972Leopold Griffuel PrizeAwardNAS Award in Molecular BiologyAward1934Born10 December 1934
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United States
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Doctors
Type
Doctor
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deceased
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Lived 1934 to 1994 · aged 59
Doctors from the United States 6
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