| born 1929, Swiss citizen
Studies of natural sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zürich (diploma) and at the University of Geneva (PhD). Postdoctoral stay at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
| 1960/70 |
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Research assistant, later associate professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva.
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| 1970/71 |
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Visiting research Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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| 1971/96 |
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Full Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 1986/88 |
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Rector of the University of Basel |
| 1996/99 |
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President of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
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| 1978 |
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Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of restriction
enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
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Research topics: Microbial genetics, horizontal gene transfer, mobile genetic elements, site-specific recombination, molecular mechanisms of microbial evolution.
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