Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert
	Walter Gilbert in 2008
Born	March 21, 1932; Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Education	Harvard University (AB, AM); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	DNA sequencing
Spouse	Celia Stone (m. 1953)
Children	2
Awards	NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1968); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1979); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; Physics;
Institutions	Harvard University
Thesis	On generalised dispersion relations and meson-nucleon scattering (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Abdus Salam
Doctoral students	George M. Church; Helen Donis-Keller; Jack Greenblatt; Gerald Guralnik; Benno Müller-Hill;
Website	www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1980/gilbert-bio.html

Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

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