Awards & Winners

Daniel Nathans

Date of Birth 30-October-1928
Place of Birth Wilmington
(United States of America, Delaware)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist
Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist.

Awards by Daniel Nathans

Check all the awards nominated and won by Daniel Nathans.

1993


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For his seminal research in molecular genetics that formed a foundation for contemporary biotechnology.)

1978


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

1976


NAS Award in Molecular Biology
(For his innovative use of molecular and cell biological tools to analyze the genome of an oncogenic virus.)