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Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
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science · American biochemist, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1932) · physicist · molecular biologist · biochemist · chemist · researcher · also Walter Gilbert, Wally Gilbert, Gilbert
Born 21 March 1932 · Q217486
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘You learn how to be idiotic artists’: Gilbert & George on fame, rebellion and their mystery new collaborator
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2008· 1 entry
Won American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2008).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Biotechnology Heritage Award (2002).
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Received the Biotechnology Heritage Award, from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation
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2001· 4 entries
Gilbert has launched an artistic career to combine art and science
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After retiring from Harvard in 2001, Gilbert has launched an artistic career to combine art and science.
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Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,210 times.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Envisioned completion of the human genome sequence transforming biology into a field in which computer databases would be as essential as laboratory reagents
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1987).
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Proposed starting a company called Genome Corporation to sequence the genome and sell access to the information
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1986· 1 entry
Gilbert proposed the RNA world hypothesis for the origin of life, based on a concept first proposed by Carl Woese in 1967
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980).
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1979· 4 entries
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1979).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1979).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1979).
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Gilbert was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Frederick Sanger
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1977).
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1972· 2 entries
“I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.”
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Was named American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology
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1969· 1 entry
Gilbert was awarded Harvard's Ledlie Prize
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Was promoted to associate professor of biophysics and promoted again in 1968 to professor of biochemistry
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1962· 1 entry
Gilbert's physics PhD student Gerald Guralnik extended Gilbert's work on massless particles; Guralnik's work is widely recognized as an important thread in the discovery of the Higgs Boson
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1956· 1 entry
And was appointed assistant professor of physics in 1959
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1953· 1 entry
And a master's degree in physics in 1954
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1932· 2 entries
Into a Jewish family, the son of Emma (Cohen), a child psychologist, and Richard V
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Born 1932-03-21.
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