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Also known as Howard Martin Temin, Howard M. Temin

American geneticist

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1946-01-14
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Key facts

Born
Howard Martin Temin , ( 1934-12-10 ) December 10, 1934, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , U.S
Died
February 9, 1994 (1994-02-09) (aged 59), Madison, Wisconsin , U.S
Education
Swarthmore College ( BA ) California Institute of Technology ( PhD )
Known for
Reverse transcriptase
Spouse
Rayla Greenberg ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 ) ​
Awards
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1972) Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1973) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
Fields
Genetics Virology
Institutions
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis
The interaction of Rous sarcoma virus and cells in vitro (1960)
Doctoral students
Edward F. Fritsch

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1975

    for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

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Encyclopedic overview

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.

Early life and education

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