
Herbert Boyer
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 88 |
Date of birth | July 10,1936 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Derry |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Spouse | Grace Boyer |
Books | Recombinant DNA Research at Ucsf and Commercial Application at Genentech: Oral History Transcript / 200 |
Job | Entrepreneur |
Biologist | |
Researcher | |
Biochemist | |
Biotechnician | |
Education | Saint Vincent College |
University of Pittsburgh | |
Awards | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research |
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
National Medal of Technology and Innovation | |
Perkin Medal | |
Albany Medical Center Prize | |
Biotechnology Heritage Award | |
National Medal of Science | |
Nationality | American |
Founded | Genentech |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 434860 |
Herbert Boyer Life story
Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering.