Howard Martin Temin

Howard Temin
Howard Temin
	Temin in 1975
Born	Howard Martin Temin; December 10, 1934; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 9, 1994 (aged 59); Madison, Wisconsin
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Swarthmore College; California Institute of Technology (PhD);
Known for	Reverse transcriptase
Spouse	Rayla Greenberg (m. 1962)
Children	2
Awards	NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1972); Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1973); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975); ForMemRS (1988);
	Scientific career
Fields	Genetics; Virology;
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis	The interaction of Rous sarcoma virus and cells in vitro (1960)
Doctoral students	Edward F. Fritsch

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.

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