“What we were able to do was to say, 'Here's the genetic map of this virus,' and to do it in a way that was much more precise than anyone had been able to do before.”

About Daniel Nathans

Scientist • American

Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shared the prize with Werner Arber and Hamilton O. Smith for their discovery of restriction enzymes and...