Howard Temin ForMemRS | |
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 Temin in 1975 | |
| Born | Howard Martin Temin December 10, 1934 |
| Died | February 9, 1994 (aged 59) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Reverse transcriptase |
| Spouse |
Rayla Greenberg (m. 1962) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thesis | The interaction of Rous sarcoma virus and cells in vitro (1960) |
| Doctoral students | Edward F. Fritsch |
Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s[1] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.[2][3]
- ^ Temin HM, Mizutani S (June 1970). "RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of Rous sarcoma virus". Nature. 226 (5252): 1211–3. Bibcode:1970Natur.226.1211T. doi:10.1038/2261211a0. PMID 4316301. S2CID 4187764.
- ^ Howard Martin Temin on Nobelprize.org , accessed 11 October 2020
- ^ Homage to Howard Temin
