Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans (born October 30, 1928 in Wilmington , Delaware , † November 16, 1999 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American microbiologist and biochemist .
He first studied chemistry, philosophy and literature, then switched to medicine and studied at Washington University in St. Louis , where he successfully completed this course in 1954. He subsequently worked at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland . In 1959 he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York as a research assistant , where the biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann also worked. In 1976 he received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology .
In 1978 Nathans received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Werner Arber and Hamilton Othanel Smith “for their discovery of restriction enzymes and the application of these enzymes in molecular genetics ”. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1977), the National Academy of Sciences (since 1979) and the American Philosophical Society (since 1985).
From 1994 to 1995, Nathans was the successor to William C. Richardson President of Johns Hopkins University .
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Nathans, Daniel. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1025.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1978 award ceremony for Daniel Nathans (English)
- Daniel Nathans in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Francis Leroy: A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients. CRC Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-824-70876-4 , p. 324.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nathans, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American microbiologist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington , Delaware |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1999 |
| Place of death | Baltimore , Maryland |