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Werner Arber

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Werner Arber

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Swiss microbiologist and geneticist

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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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
16

Top works

  • The role of the science in building the 21st century : date, Oct. 4th, 1995 10 : 30 a.m.-5 : 30 p.m.
  • Basels gescheitestes Haus
  • Transduction des caractères Gal par le bactériophage Lambda
  • Biomedizin und Ethik
  • Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
2

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via Last.fm · Werner Arber

Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1978

    for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics

    Shared · 1/3 portion

~7 min read

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Werner Arber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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