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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Daniel Nathans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 - November 16, 1999) was a U.S. microbiologist.
Nathans, who was known as the father of modern biotechnology, received the 1978 Nobel Prize in medicine, along with two colleagues, for discovering the “biochemical scissors” that launched today’s amazing advances in biotechnology.
Nathans’ application of certain restriction enzymes to separate DNA into its component parts has resulted in such breakthroughs as synthetic insulin and growth hormone and permitted the mapping of the human genome.
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 Daniel Nathans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist.
Nathans served as President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1995 to 1996.
Along with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith, Nathans received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 for the discovery of restriction enzymes.He was also awarded with National Medal of Science in 1993.
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 Nobel laureate Daniel Nathans 1928-1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nobel laureate Daniel Nathans, AS ’50, died Nov. 16 in Baltimore at the age of 71.
The last of eight children of Samuel and Sarah Levitan Nathans of Wilmington, Del., Dr. Nathans graduated summa cum laude with distinction in chemistry from the University.
Nathans is survived by his wife, Joanne, three sons and six grandchildren.
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 Nathans, Daniel - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
NATHANS, DANIEL [Nathans, Daniel] 1928-99, American microbiologist, b.
Nathans worked with Werner Arber and Hamilton Othanel Smith in studying the nature of genes.
In 1993, Nathans was awarded the highest scientific award of the United States, the National Medal of Science.
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 Noted Hopkins Molecular Biologist, Daniel Nathans Dies
Daniel Nathans, esteemed scientist and colleague at Johns Hopkins, died, from leukemia, in his sleep November 16, 1999.
Daniel Nathans, M.D., was a 1978 recipient of the Nobel Prize and a 1993 recipient of the nation's highest scientific award, the National Medal of Science.
In 1969, while Nathans was studying a virus, SV40, that created cancers in apes, Smith came forward with interesting news: He had isolated a protein that could cut a piece of DNA, the material containing the "blueprint" of life.
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 Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans was born on October 30, 1928, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Nathans remained at John Hopkins until retirement, only leaving for a year in 1969, to be the American Cancer Society Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
In 1978, Nathans was awared the Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith, for the discovery of "restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics".
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 Nathans, Daniel - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nathans, Daniel
US microbiologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978 with his colleague Hamilton Smith for their discovery of restriction enzymes (enzymes that can cleave genes into fragments) and their application to molecular genetics.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Nathans studied at the University of Delaware and at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 PNAS Classics -- Restriction Enzymes
The article, written by Academy member Daniel Nathans and his then graduate student, Kathleen Danna, exposed the marvelous utility of restriction enzymes—chemical scissors that snip DNA at specifically designated points.
Nathans claimed that his father saw him as "the last chance to have a doctor in the family" (2).
Nathans sensed Danna was ready for a change—an earlier dissertation project had ended in chaos, with pulverized rat liver spilled across Danna's lab bench.
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 Named Professorships, Deanships, and Directorships -- The Johns Hopkins University
DANIEL NATHANS won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1978, sharing the honor with his colleague, fellow Hopkins professor Hamilton O. Smith, Med 1956, and Swiss microbiologist Werner M. Arber.
Nathans joined the faculty in 1962 and went on to direct the Department of Microbiology, later renamed the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
CAROL W. GREIDER is the inaugural Daniel Nathans Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Professor in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
webapps.jhu.edu /namedprofessorships/professorshipdetail.cfm?professorshipID=190   (301 words)

  
 JHU Hygiene and Public Health Advisory Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Daniel Nathans, Cheryl Alexander, Haroutune Armenian, John Groopman, Wallace Mandell, Roger McMacken, Laura Morlock, Charles Rohde, Jonathan Samet, John Scocca, Alfred Sommer, Donald Steinwachs and Scott Zeger; and Ms.
Nathans reported that the tight State budget may affect several requests for support for new projects the University has planned to undertake, although the University remains cautiously optimistic about the status of the requests.
Nathans commended efforts by the three schools to provide needed health information to the public and to develop innovative sources of new revenue.
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 Nathans, Daniel - Onmeda: Medizin und Gesundheit
Mit dieser von Nathans gefundenen Technik, der "Entdeckung der Restriktionsenzyme und der Anwendung dieser Enzyme in der Molekulargenetik", können heute DNA-Moleküle u.a.
Daniel Nathans war das jüngste der elf Kinder von Samuel Nathans und seiner Ehefrau Sarah Levitan, russischer Juden, die um 1900 in die USA eingewandert waren und im Jahre 1910 in Philadelphia geheiratet hatten.
Zu den höchsten Auszeichnungen, die Daniel Nathans für seine biologischen Arbeiten erhielt, gehören neben dem Nobelpreis die National Medal of Science aus dem Jahre 1993 - die höchste wissenschaftliche Auszeichnung der USA - sowie die Ehrenmitgliedschaft des Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Hopkins und deren Präsidentschaft in den Jahren 1995/1996.
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 Daniel nathans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Johns Hopkins Magazine -- April 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the 30 years since Hopkins scientists Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans discovered them, researchers have used them to clone genes, map and sequence most of the human genome, and launch the biotechnology industry.
In 1978, Smith, Nathans, and Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on site-specific restriction enzymes.
Nathans used those fragments to map the genes of SV40 and identify the genes the virus used to command tumor growth.
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 Daniel Nathans, October 30, 1928–November 16, 1999 | By Daniel DiMaio | Biographical Memoirs
ANIEL NATHANS, A SCIENTIST whose pioneering use of restriction endonucleases revolutionized virology and genetics and whose personal qualities had a profound impact on those who knew him, passed away in November 1999 at the age of 71.
I FIRST MET DAN Nathans when I arrived at Johns Hopkins as a medical student in 1974, and I got to know him well beginning in 1977, when I entered his laboratory to carry out Ph.D. dissertation research.
Audiotape interview of Daniel Nathans conducted in July 1996 in the series "Leaders of American Medicine," sponsored by Alpha Omega Alpha.
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 Nathans, Daniel - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Genetic engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
One way to do this is to isolate the piece of DNA containing the gene, precisely cut the gene out, and then reintroduce (splice) the gene into a different DNA segment.
Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their isolation of restriction endonucleases, which are able to cut DNA at specific sites.
Together with ligase, which can join fragments of DNA together, restriction enzymes formed the initial basis of recombinant DNA technology.
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During the 1960s several of the faculty began to conduct research in the emerging field of Molecular Biology.
This new methodology greatly assisted the analysis of gene function and proved to be an important foundation for the subsequent recombinant DNA revolution. For these discoveries Nathans and Smith shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with the Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber.
Daniel Nathans succeeded W. Barry Wood as Director of the Department of Microbiology in 1972.  A decade later, the name of the Department was changed to Molecular Biology and Genetics to reflect the fact that most of the faculty in the Department were engaged in research in basic molecular genetics.
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 Biographies Info Science : Nathans Daniel
Né de parents russes immigrés aux Etats-Unis, Daniel Nathans suit des cours de chimie, de philosophie et de littérature à l'Université du Delaware.
En 1969, Nathans est pour un temps au Weizmann Institute of Science de Rehovot en Israël lorsqu'il reçoit une lettre de Smith qui lui apprend sa mise au jour chez Hemophilus influenzae d'une endonucléase, une enzyme de restriction.
Par la suite, cette technique d'étude de l'ADN se généralise et Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber et Hamilton Smith reçoivent le prix Nobel de médecine en 1978 pour "leur découverte des enzymes de restriction et leurs travaux sur l'utilisation de ces enzymes dans le domaine de la génétique moléculaire".
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 Nathans, Daniel - Onmeda: Medizin und Gesundheit
Daniel Nathans gehört zu den Avantgardisten der Molekulargenetik.
Damit können die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Vererbung und den chemisch-physikalischen Eigenschaften der Gene erforscht und beschrieben werden.
Seit dem Jahre 1956 war er mit Joanne Gomberg verheiratet, mit der er drei Söhne hatte.
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 Daniel Nathans
I'm delighted to have the opportunity to introduce two old friends and colleagues who are going to speak to you for the remainder of the afternoon about how they view science in Japan from here in the United States.
The first of those speakers is Professor Daniel Nathans, who is the Interim President of the Johns Hopkins University.
He was educated at the University of Delaware and Washington Universityi in St. Louis, and his work has been in the general field of biochemistry and genetics.
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 AllRefer.com - Daniel Nathans (Genetics And Genetic Engineering, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Geometry.Net - Nobel: Smith Hamilton O
Soon he was able to purify the restriction enzyme and determined that it cleaved a specific sequence of six bases in DNA.
The work from his and colleague Daniel Nathan's labs led in the early 1970's to the recombinant DNA and cloning era.
For 20 years, Dr. Smith's laboratory continued to study H. influenzae and discovered more than a dozen DNA transformation genes in the bacterium.
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 Hamilton Othanel Smith
A professor at the Univ. of Michigan and Johns Hopkins Univ., Smith worked with Daniel
The trio discovered and used certain enzymes that break down genetic material in order to study hereditary mutation in bacteria.
Daniel Nathans - Nathans, Daniel, 1928–99, American microbiologist, b.
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 Israel21c
Professor Daniel Kahneman from Princeton University, an Israeli with American citizenship whose groundbreaking economic theories are based on analysis of human behavior, was one of two scientists to win the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences.
Despite making up only 0.2 percent of the population, 14.1 million Jews worldwide have made their mark in every conceivable field.
The following list consists of all Jewish winners of the Nobel Prize since its inception.
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 The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
The first Nupur Thekdi Research Award, named for an M.D./Ph.D. student who died accidentally in 2001, recognizes M.D./Ph.D. candidate Jacob Jones, whose research has changed thinking about the proteins that make membranes of a tiny compartment within cells.
The Daniel Nathans Research Award went to Mark Levis, M.D., Ph.D., whose studies have led to clinical trials of a new treatment for acute myelogenous leukemia, the disease that claimed the life of the award's namesake, a Nobel laureate and Hopkins professor.
Postdoctoral fellow Lisa Korn, M.D., discovered that screening for osteoporosis in people over age 65 may be beneficial, while cardiology fellow Charles Henrikson, M.D., M.P.H., revealed that nitroglycerin's effect on chest pain does not help diagnosis, contrary to conventional wisdom.
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 FAMILIAR RELATIONS> A Laboratory and a Legacy
In his remarks, Dr. Simmons noted that "the Chemistry Department here at the University has steadily grown in stature over all the forty years that I’ve been watching it.
It excels now both in teaching and research and has some world-class people and projects." Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Nathans, a 1950 graduate of the University who became a distinguished professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Nobel Prize-winner in molecular biology.
Nathans’s remarks focused on the University’s mission to provide a first-class education to students of limited means.
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 Geometry.Net - Nobel: Arber Werner
"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" Werner Arber Daniel Nathans Hamilton O. Smith 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize Switzerland USA USA Biozentrum der Universität
These two discoveries led the Swiss scientist to assume that DNA has special areas to which either destructive restriction enzymes or protective enzymes attach.
This hypothesis was confirmed experimentally a few years later by Smith and then by Nathans at the
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 Daniel Nathans
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