Howard Temin
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Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist.[1] He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1975 with David Baltimore and Renato Dulbecco. He showed that certain tumor viruses carried the enzymatic ability to reverse the flow of information from RNA back to DNA using reverse transcriptase. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Howard Martin Temin | |
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 Temin in 1975 | |
| Born | December 10, 1934 |
| Died | February 9, 1994 (aged 59) |
| Occupation | Geneticist |
| Known for | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 |
References
- ↑ "Howard Martin Temin - Autobiography". nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
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