biography
pronunciation:
[naythanz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928–99)
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| biography:
| Microbiologist, born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He studied at the University of Delaware and at Washington University, St Louis, and became professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1962. He pioneered research on the use of restriction enzymes which had been isolated by Hamilton Smith to fragment DNA molecules, and they shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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