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complete name:	Werner Arber
nobel prize:	medicine
award year:	1978
together with:	Hamilton Smith
together with:	Daniel Nathans
prize share:	Prize share: 1/3
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978 was awarded jointly to Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
given name:	Werner
family name:	Arber
occupation:	physician
occupation:	biologist
occupation:	university teacher
occupation:	geneticist
field of work:	microbiology
work location:	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
description:	Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.
image copyright:	Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1978/summary/>
date birth:	1929
usual name:	Werner Arber