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profiles .ucsf .edu /j .michael .bishop. John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. [1] He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco ( UCSF ), where he also served as ...
J. Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American virologist and cowinner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for achievements in clarifying the origins of cancer. Bishop graduated from Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania) in 1957 and from Harvard Medical School in 1962.
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Addendum, January 2018. J. Michael Bishop is University Professor, Director Emeritus of the G.W. Hooper Research Foundation and Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Michael was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, and educated at Gettysburg College, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General ...
Feb 22, 2012 · Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. J. Michael Bishop. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989. Born: 22 February 1936, York, PA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 was awarded jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.
BISHOP (1936-) J. Michael Bishop was born February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate degree at Gettysburg College, majoring in chemistry, and eventually chose medicine as a career. He entered Harvard Medical School, became interested in basic science, and began research in animal virology, where he "learned that ...
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Bishop was born on February 22, 1936 in York, Pennsylvania, the son (one of three children) of a Lutheran minister and had little contact with city life until his early 20s. He attended rural schools but was a keen student and, inspired by the family doctor, entered Gettysburg College to study chemistry, intent on a medical career.
