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pronunciation:
[ah(r)ber]
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| Microbiologist, born in Gränichen, N Switzerland. He studied at Geneva University and the University of Southern California, becoming professor of molecular biology at Basel from 1970. In the 1960s he proposed that when bacteria defend themselves against attack by viruses, they use selective enzymes which cut the DNA chain of the infecting virus. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978. |
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