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Science & Medicine
Walter Gilbert
Who
Walter Gilbert · Science & Medicine
What
DNA Sequencing
When
1932, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Where
United States · Harvard University
Biography
Walter Gilbert is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — DNA Sequencing
How & why
Gilbert, born to a Jewish family in Boston, trained as a theoretical physicist before molecular biology drew him in at Harvard. With Allan Maxam he devised a chemical method to read the exact order of the bases in DNA, one of the first practical ways to sequence genes. For this he shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and he went on to co-found Biogen, helping launch the biotechnology industry.
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Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Contributions & Sources
DNA Sequencing
1980
Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
