Back هيربرت بوير Arabic هربرت بویر AZB Герберт Боер Byelorussian Herbert W. Boyer German Herbert Boyer Esperanto Herbert Boyer Spanish هربرت بویر Persian Herbert Boyer Finnish Herbert Boyer French Herbert Boyer ID
Herbert Boyer | |
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 Dr. Boyer in 1977 | |
| Born | July 10, 1936 Derry, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | Goregaon West |
| Alma mater | Saint Vincent College (B.S., 1958) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. 1963) |
| Awards | National Medal of Science (1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.
By 1969, Boyer performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson–MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as vice president of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991.[1]
- ^ "Shaping Life in the Lab: The Boom In Genetic Engineering: Genentech's Herbert Boyer". Time. February 9, 2002. Cover. Retrieved May 7, 2019.