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Norman Harold Horowitz (March 19, 1915 – June 1, 2005) was a American geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars. His experiments were carried out by the Viking Lander of 1976, the first U.S. mission to successfully land an unmanned probe on the ...
Dec 1, 2005 · Norman Harold Horowitz, 1915–2005. Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics. Edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove. AS a new graduate student of Herschel Mitchell at Caltech in 1951, I soon had occasion to visit Horowitz's office. I immediately noticed a newspaper clipping taped to the door.
- Robert L. Metzenberg
- 2005
Jun 4, 2005 · In 1958, when Dr. Beadle shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine, he gave credit to Dr. Horowitz for his original work on biological reactions. Dr. Horowitz became a professor emeritus at Caltech in 1982.
Dr. Horowitz returned to Caltech with Beadle, where he joined the faculty and where he became a key player in the formation of biochemical genetics. In particular, Horowitz - with colleagues such as Howard Teas and Marguerite Fling - used mutants to demonstrate the soundness of the "one-gene, one-enzyme" theory and the ways in which mutants could be exploited for practical applications.
Jun 1, 2005 · Norman Harold Horowitz (March 19, 1915 – June 1, 2005) was an American geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars.
Dr. Horowitz returned to Caltech with Beadle, where he joined the faculty and where he became a key player in the formation of biochemical genetics. In particular, Horowitz - with colleagues such as Howard Teas and Marguerite Fling - used mutants to demonstrate the soundness of the "one-gene, one-enzyme" theory and the ways in which mutants could be exploited for practical applications.
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Dr. Richard Horowitz has been treating Lyme and other tick-borne infections for 28 years. When he moved from Bayside, New York, to the Hudson Valley, he never suspected he’d land right in the heart of tick territory. After working in internal medicine, Dr. Horowitz opened a practice in Hyde Park, New York, where he is the medical director of ...
