Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate. Smith was born on August 23, 1931, and graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-C
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Renato Dulbecco (February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian-born American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase, which viruses use to translate their RNA into DNA
Continue reading >>Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (pronounced GUY-dah-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was a Hungarian˙-Slovak-American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiolog
Continue reading >>For decades, RNA molecules have been regarded as little more than DNA's messengers, ferrying the genetic code to the cell's protein-building factories. Craig Mello's research has helped to establish that certain RNA molecules play a far mor
Continue reading >>Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize
Continue reading >>I was born in San Diego, California in 1961. My brother Mark was born in January of the previous year. My father Kenneth Greider was a physicist who had recently graduated with a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. My mother Je
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