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Howard Temin

American geneticist

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Lived 1934–1994, aged 60United States
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  • Era
    1934–1994
    Aged 60
  • Awards
    10
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-18

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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