Howard Martin Temin
Howard Temin ForMemRS | |
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Temin in 1975 | |
| Born | Howard Martin Temin December 10, 1934 |
| Died | February 9, 1994 (aged 59) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | |
| Known for | Reverse transcriptase |
| Spouse |
Rayla Greenberg (m. 1962) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| 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.