biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in New York City, USA. A graduate in medicine from Rochester University, he was director of enzyme research at the National Institutes of Health (1947–52) and head of the department of microbiology at Washington University (1953–9). He discovered the DNA enzyme polymerase, for which he shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In 1959 he was appointed professor at Stanford University, and became the first to synthesize viral DNA (1967). |
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