Howard Martin Temin
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For the British doctor, see Howard Martin.
Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s[2] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.[3][4]
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Born | Howard Martin Temin (1934-12-10)December 10, 1934 |
Died | February 9, 1994(1994-02-09) (aged 59) |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | Reverse transcriptase |
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Rayla Greenberg (m. 1962) |
Children | 2 |
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Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Thesis | The interaction of Rous sarcoma virus and cells in vitro (1960) |
Doctoral students | Edward F. Fritsch |
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