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| | The Lasker Foundation | Former Award Winners, Basic Medical Research 1974, Obituary |
 | | Howard M. Temin, a cancer researcher, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, that overturned a central tenet of molecular biology, died of lung cancer Wednesday, at his home in Madison, Wis. He was 59. |
 | | Temin was an ardent crusader against smoking, even admonishing members of the audience at the Nobel Prize ceremony for smoking when he was being honored for his efforts to combat cancer. |
 | | Temin was puzzled why RNA viruses were an exception to the central dogma, and suggested in 1964, that some animal viruses may harbor reverse transcriptase, which would permit duplication of the virus's RNA into DNA for better biological adjustment after the virus entered a DNA-dominated animal cell. |
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