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Walter Gilbert was an American biochemist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding how DNA works and how genes are expressed. His work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and fundamentally advanced our ability to read and study genetic material, which has had major impacts on medicine and biological research.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1980
“for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Family name
- Gilbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Occupation
- researcher
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Abdus Salam
- Student of
- Abdus Salam
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Walter Gilbert HD2008 portrait.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1932-03-21
- Commons category
- Walter Gilbert (biochemist)
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Walter Gilbert
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
Education and early life
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