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Werner Arber
 
* 1929 Gränichen, Switzerland
 

   

Werner Arber

 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.


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