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Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Walter Gilbert is a molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA sequencing and recombinant DNA techniques. He started as a theoretical physicist and later switched to biology, where he made groundbreaking discoveries on protein synthesis, genetic control, and gene structure.
Mar 21, 2011 · Walter Gilbert shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Allan Maxam for developing a method to map DNA sequences. Learn about his biography, work, and prize motivation on NobelPrize.org.
For determining the base sequence of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), work they did independently of each other, molecular biologist Walter Gilbert and British biochemist Frederick Sanger (1918- ) shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry with American molecular biologist Paul Berg (1926- ), who won for his fundamental studies on the biochemistry of ...
- Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle
- 2003
Interview with the 1980 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Walter Gilbert, 22 March 2009. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Walter Gilbert discusses his current serious vocation , photography, and its similarities to his previous work in science (4:12), growing up in an intellectual family and his truancy in high ...
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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.
