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Nathans
[ ney-thuhnz ]
noun
- Daniel, 1928–1999, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1978.
Nathans
/ nā′thənz /
- American microbiologist who pioneered the use of restriction enzymes —enzymes that break DNA molecules down into manageable fragments—to create the first genetic map on which the location of specific genes on the DNA could be identified. For this work, which revolutionized genetic engineering, Nathans shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith.
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