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(1929– ), Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate, born in Gränichen and educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and the University of Geneva. He joined the faculty at the University of Geneva in 1960; he became a professor of molecular biology at the University of Basel in 1971. Arber's fields of expertise were bacteriophage (viruses that are parasites of bacteria) physiology and genetics. His research led him to enzymes that cleaved bacteriophage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the mechanism by which they achieved the cleavage, which he called host-controlled restriction-modification. In 1978 Arber was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, which he shared with the American molecular biologists Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith, for “the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.”
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ARBER, Werner
ARBER, Werner. (1929– ), Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate, born in Gränichen and educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and the University of Geneva. Arber's fields of expertise were bacteriophage . . .
ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Alfred B. Nobel Prize Winners,
1901-2004
Jack Werner
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U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Werner was born in Austria in 1920 to a wealthy jewish family. In 1939 he fled Austria to escape Nazi persecution and soon joined the U.S. Army so he could help fight Hitler.
U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Werner was born in Austria in 1920 to a wealthy jewish family. In 1939 he fled Austria to escape Nazi persecution and soon joined the U.S. Army so he could help fight Hitler.
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