Werner Arber
Werner Arber (born June 3, 1929 in Gränichen ) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist . In 1978 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
Life
Werner Arber studied chemistry and physics at the ETH Zurich from 1949 to 1953 after completing his Matura at the old canton school in Aarau . He then worked at the Biophysical Laboratory of the University of Geneva , where he received his doctorate in 1958 and got to know the new field of bacteriophage genetics . After a research stay in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California (USCLA) , he returned to the University of Geneva from 1959 to 1970, where he received a professorship in 1965. Since 1971 Werner Arber has taught and researched as a full professor of molecular microbiology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel . From 1986 to 1988 Arber was rector of the University of Basel . For many years he was a member and vice-president of the Swiss Science Council and from 1996 to 1999 President of the International Council of Science ICSU. In 1996 he retired .
From December 20, 2010 to June 20, 2017, he was President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , of which he has been a member since 1981. The Evangelical Reformed Christian was the first President who did not belong to the Roman Catholic Church since it was founded over 400 years ago .
Act
His main areas of work are the bacterial restriction systems and mobile genetic elements (insertion elements, transposons ) as well as the modification and restriction of the ribonucleic acid of bacteria and bacteriophages.
In 1978 he and Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in molecular genetics.
Awards
- European Molecular Biology Organization (1964)
- European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (1981)
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences , USA (1984)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984)
- Full member of the Academia Europaea (1989)
- Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology (1996);
- Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (1997)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southern California
literature
- Lazare Benaroyo / MS: Arber, Werner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gisela Baumgart: Arber, Werner. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 92 f.
Web links
- Publications by and about Werner Arber in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Werner Arber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1978 award to Werner Arber (English) and interview (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Pontifical Academy of Sciences: List of Presidents, Chancellors and Members of the Council 1936-2017
- ^ Arber becomes President of the Academy of Sciences , Vatican Radio , January 13, 2011
- ↑ Directory of members: Werner Arber. Academia Europaea, accessed August 4, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arber, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss microbiologist and geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graenichen |