Norman Davidson
Norman Davidson · Science & Medicine
Chemist and molecular biologist who advanced nucleic acid hybridization methods
1916, Chicago, Illinois, United States — 2002, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States
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Norman Davidson was an American chemist and molecular biologist at Caltech who established the principle of nucleic-acid renaturation and pioneered electron-microscopy methods for mapping DNA and RNA, foundational tools of molecular biology; he later helped launch molecular neuroscience and received the National Medal of Science. He is documented as Jewish in Jinfo's directory of Jews in biomedical science.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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Chemist and molecular biologist who advanced nucleic acid hybridization methods
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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