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temin, howard martin

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Tem·in   (těm'ĭn)   
American oncologist. He shared a 1975 Nobel Prize for research on the interaction of tumor viruses and genetic material.
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Temin, Howard Martin

American virologist who in 1975 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his former professor Renato Dulbecco and another of Dulbecco's students, David Baltimore, for his codiscovery of the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

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