Marvin H. Caruthers

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Marvin Harry Caruthers (born February 11, 1940 in Des Moines , Iowa ) is an American biochemist.

Caruthers graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received a PhD in biochemistry from Northwestern University in 1968 . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin until 1970 and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1972 . From 1973 he was Assistant Professor and from 1980 Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

He deals with nucleic acids and developed methods of phosphoramidite synthesis from DNA that are used worldwide in his laboratory . In addition to DNA, he also developed methods of RNA synthesis and DNA analogues in his laboratory and researched their application.

In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From the University of Nebraska . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the Prelog Medal , the Elliott Cresson Medal (1994), the National Medal of Science (2004), the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society (2005), the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2014) and the ACS Award for Creative Invention (2014). In 2018 Caruthers was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame . In 1980/81 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Since 2019 the media group Clarivate has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ).

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
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SURNAME Caruthers, Marvin H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caruthers, Marvin Harry (full name); Caruthers, Marvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines