Awards & Winners

Werner Arber

Date of Birth 03-June-1929
Place of Birth Gränichen
(Canton of Aargau, Aarau District, Switzerland)
Nationality Switzerland
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.

Awards by Werner Arber

Check all the awards nominated and won by Werner Arber.

1978


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics)