biography
| name: |
Boyer, Herbert (Wayne)
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pronunciation:
[boyer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Pittsburgh, and from 1966 worked at the University of California, San Francisco. In collaboration with Stanley Cohen (1935– ) of Stanford University, he successfully spliced a gene from a plasmid of one organism into the plasmid of another (1973). The technique they developed became the foundation of genetic engineering. |
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