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Howard Temin
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Person

Howard Temin

1934 – 1994 · aged 60

American geneticist

Born
10 Dec 1934 · Philadelphia
Died
9 Feb 1994 · Madison

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 69 years
  1. 10 Dec 1934BornBorn in Philadelphia
  2. 1972AwardLeopold Griffuel Prize
  3. 1972AwardNAS Award in Molecular Biology
  4. 1973AwardPfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
  5. 1974AwardAACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research
  6. 1974AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  7. 1974AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  8. 1975AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  9. 1987AwardDoctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
  10. 1988AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  11. 1992AwardNational Medal of Science
  12. 9 Feb 1994DiedDied in Madison

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1934 – 1994).

  1. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  2. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  3. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  4. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1938Munich Agreement
  6. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  7. 1939 – 1945World War II
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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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