Walter Gilbert



Walter Gilbert

BornMarch 21 1932 (1932-03-21) (age 80)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States
FieldNobel Prize in Chemistry

Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist,and molecular biology pioneer.

Biography

Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at the Sidwell Friends School, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, later joining the faculty at Harvard. Together with Allan Maxam he developed a new DNA sequencing method.[1] His approach to the first synthesis of Genentech's approach which used genes built up from the nucleotides rather than from natural sources.

In 1979, Gilbert was awarded the Biogen and was the first chairman on the board of directors. He is currently the chairman of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

In the late 1980s, Walter Gilbert expressed skepticism about the role of HIV in AIDS, but has more recently said that he thinks that the success of drugs developed since then is "proof of the causation"--that HIV causes AIDS.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maxam AM, Gilbert W., A new method for sequencing DNA, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1977 Feb;74(2):560-4.
  2. ^ http://momentofscience.blogspot.com/2006/07/well-someone-has-to-do-it.html
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

William Lipscomb (1976) • Ilya Prigogine (1977) • Peter D. Mitchell (1978) • Georg Wittig (1979) • Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger (1980) • Roald Hoffmann (1981) • Aaron Klug (1982) • Henry Taube (1983) • Robert Merrifield (1984) • Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle (1985) • John Polanyi (1986) • Charles J. Pedersen (1987) • Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel (1988) • Thomas Cech (1989) • Elias Corey (1990) • Richard R. Ernst (1991) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1992) • Michael Smith (1993) • George Olah (1994) • Mario J. Molina / Frank Rowland (1995) • Richard Smalley (1996) • Jens Christian Skou (1997) • John Pople (1998) • Ahmed Zewail (1999) • Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa (2000)

Complete roster | (1901–1925) | (1926–1950) | (1951–1975) | (1976-2000) | (2001–2025)

 
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