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Werner Arber was a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist who made important contributions to understanding how bacteria protect themselves from viruses through a process involving DNA cutting and modification. His work on restriction enzymes—the molecular "scissors" that cut DNA at specific points—earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and laid crucial groundwork for modern genetic engineering and DNA research.
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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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- 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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