The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
Awarded on: 1975-10-16
"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
Affiliations:
- University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI, USA
Howard Martin Temin
Born: 1934-12-10 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: 20th-century American geneticist
Biography
Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.