Werner Arber Quotes


I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16.


Citations

Arber, Werner. "Werner Arber - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1978, edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, 1979.

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Werner Arber
Werner Arber
  • Born: June 3, 1929
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Scientist

Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.