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Advertisement Howard Martin Temin Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 1 item Howard Martin Temin (1934-1994), American virologist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, which he shared with American molecular biologist David Baltimore and Italian American virologist Renato Dulbecco for their discoveries concerning the action of viruses on the genetic structure of the cells they infect. Temin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1955 he earned a B.S. degree in biology, with honors, from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. In 1959 he received a Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where he was a student of Dulbecco's. After a year of postdoctoral studies at Caltech, Temin joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he remained for his entire career, advancing from assistant professor to full professor. His last appointment, in 1982, was to the Steenbock Professorship of the Biological Sciences. | |
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