Daniel Nathans Summary

Daniel Nathans 1928-1999 American molecular biologist who was corecipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in medicine with Hamilton Smith and Werner Arber for the discovery and use of restriction enzymes. Res... Read more

Nathans was born in 1928 in Delaware. He was the last of nine children born to Samuel and Sarah Nathans, Russian Jewish immigrants. Nathans received his B.A. from the University of Delaware in 1950 an... Read more

Daniel Nathans is best known for his work with restriction enzymes, which are used to cut or break DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules. This technique, first applied to gene study by Nathans, led th... Read more