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Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana 1922-, American biochemist, b. Raipur (now in Pakistan), Ph.D. Univ. of Liverpool, 1948. He became a U.S. citizen in 1966, and has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1970. Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg , and Robert W. Holley were awarded the... Read more
Marshall Warren Nirenberg Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Marshall Warren Nirenberg 1927-, American biochemist, b. New York, N.Y., Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 1947. He spent his entire career as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. Nirenberg was a co-recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Har Gobind Khorana and... Read more
Robert William Holley Robert William Holley
HOLLEY, ROBERT WILLIAM(b. Urbana, Illinois, 28 January 1922; d. Los Gatos, California, 11 February 1993),organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology.Holley was the first to provide the full sequence of an RNA molecule, alanine transfer RNA, and therefore, indirectly, of a gene.... Read more
Susumu Tonegawa Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa Immunologist Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939) received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of the principle under which human genes rearrange to form the antibodies that fight disease. As a graduate student in 1968 he left Japan to earn his Ph.D. in molecular... Read more
Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert 1932-, American molecular biologist, b. Boston, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1957. In 1968 he became a professor of biophysics at Harvard, where he had taught since 1959. He helped formulate a method for determining the sequence of bases in nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) that made it possible to... Read more
Stanley Ben Prusiner Stanley Ben Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner 1942-, American neurologist, b. Des Moines, Iowa, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1968. Prusiner has been a professor at the Univ. of California, San Francisco since 1974. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of prions... Read more
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James Dewey Watson James Dewey Watson
James Dewey Watson 1928-, American biologist and educator, b. Chicago, Ill., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1947, Ph.D. Univ. of Indiana, 1950. With F. H. C. Crick he began (1951) research on the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. Their findings,... Read more
Francis Harry Compton Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick 1916-2004, English scientist, grad. University College, London, and Caius College, Cambridge. Crick was trained as a physicist, and from 1940 to 1947 he served as a scientist in the admiralty, where he designed circuitry for naval mines. At Cambridge after 1947, he... Read more
Michael Stuart Brown Michael Stuart Brown
Michael Stuart Brown 1941-, American molecular geneticist, b. New York City, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966. He worked (1968-71) as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health before going to the Southwestern Medical School of the Univ. of Texas at Dallas. Brown and colleague Joseph L. ... Read more

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