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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Madison
- Sibling
- Peter Temin
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Employer
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Renato Dulbecco
- Field of work
- virology
- Image
- Howard Martin Temin 1975.jpg
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1934-12-10
- date of death
- 1994-02-09
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Howard Martin Temin
- name in native language
- Howard Martin Temin
- interested in
- oncology
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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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