Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans ( born October 30, 1928 in Wilmington, Delaware, † November 16, 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American microbiologist and biochemist.

He studied at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine where she completed the study in 1954. Subsequently, he worked at the Columbia -Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1959 he came to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, where Fritz Albert Lipmann worked. In 1976 he was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology.

In 1978 Nathan along with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith Othanel the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of restriction enzymes and the application of these enzymes in molecular genetics ".

From 1994 to 1995 Nathan was to succeed William C. Richardson President of Johns Hopkins University.

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