biography
| name: |
Temin, Howard M(artin)
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pronunciation:
[teemin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1934–94)
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| biography:
| Virologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He spent his career at the University of Wisconsin (from 1960). Working with RNA viruses (1970), he isolated the enzyme reverse transcriptase that transcribes viral RNA into the host cell's DNA. For this achievement, he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His later research included major contributions to studies of tumour viruses, enzyme chemistry, AIDS, and viral evolution. |
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