BIOLOGIST

Werner Arber

1929 - Today

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Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Arber is the 82nd most popular biologist (up from 85th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 77th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Biologist.

Werner Arber is most famous for his discovery of restriction enzymes in 1970.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Werner Arber ranks 82 out of 1,097. Before him are Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, Richard Owen, Ralph M. Steinman, Archibald Hill, and René Lesson. After him are Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, August Weismann, and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Werner Arber ranks 37. Before him are Alejandro Jodorowsky, Djalma Santos, Richard E. Taylor, Isamu Akasaki, Hafizullah Amin, and Oriana Fallaci. After him are Fernanda Montenegro, Murray Gell-Mann, John Turner, Zdzisław Beksiński, Hebe Camargo, and Lennart Meri.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 63 out of 1,015. Before him are Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Auguste Piccard (1884), Michel Mayor (1942), Johannes Itten (1888), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938). After him are Hans Küng (1928), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Emil Jannings (1884), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), and Max Frisch (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 4. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778). After him are Carl Nägeli (1817), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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