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Walter Gilbert. Walter Gilbert (n. 21 martie 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, SUA) este un chimist american, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru chimie (1980).
Gilbert, Walter, Maxam, Allan and Mirzabekov, Andrei “Contacts Between the lac Repressor and DNA Revealed by Methylation” in Control of Ribosome Synthesis”, 139-148, Alfred Benzon Symposium IX, Munksgaard 1976.
Walter “Wally” Gilbert describes how his career has spanned from science to art, and how he started pursuing photography on a professional level.
Walter (Wally) Gilbert is a renowned scientist who won the Nobel Prize for. Chemistry in 1980 for developing DNA sequencing technology. Since 1985, he. has held professorships at Harvard University in the Departments of Physics, Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Biology, and now in the Department of Molecular.
Walter Gilbert. 1932-. American molecular biologist who isolated the lactose repressor in Escherichia coli, the first time such a genetic control component had been identified. In 1980 he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg for contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. The ...
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Gilbert was educated at Harvard and at Cambridge University, England, where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1957. He returned to America to take up an appointment in theoretical physics at Harvard. He changed to molecular biology in 1960 under the influence of James Watson and in 1968 became professor of molecular biology at Harvard. He was elected chairman of the department of cellular and developmental biology in 1987.
The phrase “The RNA World” was coined by Walter Gilbert in 1986 in a commentary on the then recent observations of the catalytic properties of various RNAs. The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
