“some kind of close relationship with the genome of the infected cell”
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Howard Temin
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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Born 10 December 1934 · Died 9 February 1994 · Q243536
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1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-02-09.
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1992· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1992).
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Temin received the National Medal of Science
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Temin became a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)/NAS committee for national strategy for public policy issues associated with AIDS
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1981· 1 entry
Temin became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1979· 1 entry
Became an advisory member for the director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a member of the human gene therapy subgroup of the recombinant DNA advisory committee
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1975· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
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Baltimore and Temin shared the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine
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Temin went from a rebel in the scientific community to a highly respected researcher
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research (1974).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1974).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1973).
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1972).
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Awarded Leopold Griffuel Prize (1972).
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1969· 1 entry
Temin and a postdoctoral fellow, Satoshi Mizutani, began searching for the enzyme that was responsible for the phenomenon of viral RNA being transferred into proviral DNA
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1960· 2 entries
Found an unprepared laboratory in the basement of a rundown building with an office that could be considered a closet
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The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recruited Temin as a virologist; a position that had been hard to fill because, at the time, virology was not considered pertinent to canc
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1955· 1 entry
Majoring and minoring in biology in the honors program
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-12-10.
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