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Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist who was a corecipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in molecular genetics, specifically the discovery and application of enzymes that break the giant molecules of DNA into manageable pieces. Learn more about Arber’s life and work.
Werner Arber. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978. Born: 3 June 1929, Gränichen, Switzerland. Affiliation at the time of the award: Biozentrum der Universität, Basel, Switzerland. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”. Prize share: 1/3.
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Werner Arber Biographical . I was born on June 3rd, 1929 in Gränichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. I then entered the gymnasium at the Kantonsschule Aarau where I got a B-type maturity in 1949.
Professor. Werner. Arber. Born 3rd June, 1929 ( Granichen, Switzerland) Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist who together with Daisy Dussoix helped discover and understand the mechanism of restriction enzymes, laying the foundation for their adoption as molecular scissors. These enzymes today are a fundamental tool for many ...
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Werner Arber. 1929-. Swiss microbiologist whose discovery that enzymes break large pieces of DNA into smaller, manageable pieces led to a revolution in genetics research. Building on Salvatore Luria's findings that bateriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) undergo changes themselves, Arber found that restriction enzymes helped bacteria ...
Werner Arber. Date of birth 03 June 1929. Place Gränichen, Andorra (Europe) Nomination 12 May 1981 (President of the PAS from 20 December 2010 to 29 May 2017 | President Emeritus for Life from 7 September 2021) Field Microbiology, Biological Evolution. Title Professor, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1978. Biography.
