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Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
Currently I am interested in, on one hand, the making of useful proteins in bacteria and, on the other hand, the structure of genes and the evolution of DNA sequences. After my change from physics to molecular biology, I was promoted at Harvard in Biophysics and later in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Walter Gilbert is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who started his career in theoretical physics before moving to molecular biology, working hard to compensate for his lack of formal training in the field.
Walter Gilbert is an American molecular biologist who was awarded a share (with Paul Berg and Frederick Sanger) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980 for his development of a method for determining the sequence of nucleotide links in the chainlike molecules of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).
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Walter Gilbert, molecular biology pioneer, physicist, biochemist, entrepreneur and Nobel laureate. He received his Bachelor of Art degree from Harvard University in 1953 and Master degree in physic (1957), Ph.D. in mathematics from Cambridge University in England in 1957.
Mar 21, 2011 · Walter Gilbert. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980. Born: 21 March 1932, Boston, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Biological Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”. Prize share: 1/4.
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An alumnus of the 1949 STS, Walter Gilbert received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 for developing a method of rapidly sequencing DNA. Gilbert’s discovery helped scientists map the entire human genome.
