Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize Laureates
Werner Arber
1978 Physiology or Medicine
* 1929 Gränichen, Switzerland
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Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist.
Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans,
Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.
Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.
2021 J. Giesen