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Temin, Howard Martin

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Temin, Howard Martin, 1934–94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his cancer research while still a student, working with his professor Renato Dulbecco Dulbecco, Renato (rənät`ō dŭlbĕk`ō), 1914–, American biologist, b. Catanzaro, Italy.
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 and fellow student David Baltimore Baltimore, David (bôl`tĭmôr, –mər), 1938–, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ.
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. In 1970 they experimentally verified Temin's hypothesis that cancer cells affect genetic material. For this discovery the three were awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.


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