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Werner Arber

Swiss microbiologist and geneticist · Switzerland · Doctors · Born 1929 · age 97

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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.

A life in dates

1996Honorary Doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran CanariaAward1988Honorary Doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAward1978Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1929Born3 June 1929

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Letters from Daisy Dussoix in 1978 where she expresses her frustration about the lack of recognition of her research which led Werner Arber to obtain the Nobel prizeLetters from Daisy Dussoix in 1978 where she expresses her frustration about the lack of recognition of her research which led Werner Arber to obtain the Nobel prize

Awards

Honorary Doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria1996
Honorary Doctor of Louis Pasteur University1988
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1978
Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
EMBO Membership

In their orbit

Child: Silvia Arber

About this person

Country
Switzerland
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1929 · age 97

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