Werner Arber

Werner Arber is a microbiologist and a geneticist Swiss born the June 3rd 1929 with Gränichen in Argovie. It obtained in 1978 the Nobel Prize of medicine with Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans for the discovery of the Enzyme of restriction. Their work contributed to the development of technologies related to DNA recombining.

Biography

Werner Arber studies chemistry and physics with the federal Polytechnic school of Zurich between 1949 and 1953. With the end of the year 1953, it becomes assitant in the laboratory which manages the electron microscope of the Université of Geneva. It gives up the microscope to concentrate on the study of the Bactériophage S then writes its thesis on the failing phages lambda. It receives its doctorate of the University of Geneva in 1958.

Arber works as of the summer 1958 with the University off Southern California on the genetics of the phages with Joe Bertani. End 1959, it accepts an offer to return to Geneva but to the beginning of 1960 did not go back there after having spent several weeks in various laboratories: that of Gunther Stent with the University of Berkeley, that of Joshua Lederberg with the University Stanford and near El Salvador Luria with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology.

Of return to Geneva, he works at the institute of physics where he begins productive research on Escherichia coli . In 1965, it is promoted extraordinary under professor in molecular genetics at the University of Geneva. In 1971, after one last year as a professor in Berkeley, it integrates the Université of Basle. It is one of the first people to be worked in the Biozentrum which had just been built and which sheltered laboratories of biophysics, biochemistry, microbiology, biology and pharmacology.

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