Temin, Howard Martin

Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002929

1934–1994 American virologist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of oncogenic or tumour-inducing viruses and was also one of the first scientists to isolate the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

Keywords: oncogenic viruses; provirus hypothesis; reverse transcriptase

 Further Reading
    book Cooper GM, Greenberg R, Temin H and Sugden B (eds) (1995) The DNA Provirus: Howard Temin's Scientific Legacy. Washington, DC: ASM Press.
    book Shropshire W Jr (1981) The Joys of Research. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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Sankaran, Neeraja(Apr 2001) Temin, Howard Martin. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002929]