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Werner Arber
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Werner Arber is a male person from the United Kingdom. He has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Medicine collection. His work count is listed as 5 in one source and 16 in another.
Among his top works are "The role of the science in building the 21st century," "Basels gescheitestes Haus," "Transduction des caractères Gal par le bactériophage Lambda," "Biomedizin und Ethik," and "Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre." He is referenced by 392 other encyclopedia articles.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1978
“for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Werner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Gränichen
- Child
- Silvia Arber
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Basel
- Employer
- University of Basel
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Daisy Dussoix
- Field of work
- microbiology
- Image
- Werber Arber.jpg
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- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons category
- Werner Arber
- date of birth
- 1929-01-01
- name in native language
- Werner Arber
- interested in
- microbiology
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Gränichen
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Encyclopedic overview
Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.
Life and career
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