Howard Temin

Howard Martin Temin
Temin in 1975
Born	December 10, 1934(1934-12-10) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 9, 1994(1994-02-09) (aged 59) Madison, Wisconsin
Occupation	Geneticist
Known for	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist. 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.

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