Daniel Nathans

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978

“for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”

Daniel Nathans was an American molecular biologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978, together with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith, for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.