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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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- Born
- 9 August 1956
- Died
- 8 November 2008
- Works
- 44
Top works
- The Walrus and the Warwolf
- The Walrus And The Warwolf
- To Find and Wake the Dreamer
- Die Traumdeuterin
- Toguras Rückkehr
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,371x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,515x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,370x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,248x
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Quotes
- “[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.”
- “I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.”
- “I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument”
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Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
Education and early life