Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
Background
- Born in
- Boston
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityUniversity of CambridgeTrinity CollegeSidwell Friends School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏆 Humboldt Prize🏆 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Abdus Salam
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 George M. Church📖 Gerald Guralnik
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"I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would re…"
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Timeline
1932
Born
Birth1994
Died
Death
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