Daniel Nathans ( born Daniel Nathans ; October 30, 1928 ; Wilmington , Delaware , USA - November 16, 1999 ) is an American microbiologist , 1978 Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology. President , Johns Hopkins University (1995-1996).
| Daniel Nathans | |
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| English Daniel Nathans | |
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| Date of Birth | October 30, 1928 |
| Place of Birth | Wilmington (Delaware) , USA |
| Date of death | November 16, 1999 (71 years old) |
| Place of death | Baltimore , Maryland , USA |
| A country |  USA |
| Scientific field | microbiology |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | University of Delaware |
| Known as | restriction enzyme discovery |
| Awards and prizes |  1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1979) [1] .
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Biography
Daniel Nathans was born on October 30, 1928 in Wilmington, Delaware, into a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire . Of the nine children, he was the youngest child. During the Great Depression, his father lost his business and was unemployed for a long time. Nathans graduated from a public school, and then the University of Delaware , where he studied chemistry, philosophy and literature. He received his doctorate from the University of Washington ( St. Louis ) in 1954 .
In 1978, Daniel Nathans, together with another American microbiologist Hamilton Smith and the Swiss microbiologist and geneticist Werner Arber, received the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for the discovery of restriction enzymes . Nathans was the first to use restriction enzymes found and characterized by Smith and Arber in genetic studies of the SV40 virus (Simian virus 40).
Daniel Nathans was president of Johns Hopkins University from 1995-1996. At the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the McKusak-Natans Institute of Medical Genetics was founded, and in 2005 one of the university’s four colleges was named after Natans.
See also
- Arber, Werner
- Smith, Hamilton
- Nuclease