biography
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in Germiston, NE South Africa. He studied at Witwatersrand University and Oxford, and joined the MRC Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge (1957), becoming its director in 1980. He did notable work on the information code of DNA, and in the 1970s moved to basic studies designed to relate, in detail, an animal's nervous system to its genetic make-up. He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death. |
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