Arber retired as President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and was replaced by German scientist Joachim von Braun
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Werner Arber
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.
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science · Swiss microbiologist and geneticist (born 1929) · geneticist · physician · university teacher · Nobel Prize winner · microbiologist · also Werner Arber, Arber
Born 3 June 1929 · Q115495
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia” in Blood — cited 8,101 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1996).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur University (1988).
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1981· 1 entry
Arber became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978).
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(Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton Smith)"
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1971· 1 entry
After spending a year as a visiting Miller Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Berkeley, Arber moved to the University of Basel
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1965· 1 entry
The University of Geneva promoted him to Extraordinary Professor for Molecular Genetics
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1963· 1 entry
While he was a researcher in Stent's Berkeley lab, when experiments produced the first evidence that modification in E
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1959· 1 entry
Accepted an offer to return to Geneva at the beginning of 1960, but only after spending "several very fruitful weeks" at each of the laboratories of Gunther Stent (University of California, Berkeley), Joshua Lederberg
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1953· 1 entry
Took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the University of Geneva, in time left the electron microscope, went on to research bacteriophages and write his dissertation on defective lambda prophage mutants
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-06-03.
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