H. Robert Horvitz - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2002
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H. Robert Horvitz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2002
for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/8/1947
place of birth
Chicago
Age
79 years
educated at
  • Harvard University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1974
  • Niles East High School
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    • start time: 1988
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1991
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2005
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 2009
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Medicine
field of work
  • developmental biology
  • apoptotic process
  • molecular biology
  • cell biology
occupation
  • physician
  • biologist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
doctoral student
  • Junying Yuan
  • Gary Ruvkun
  • Cornelia Bargmann
  • Barbara Conradt
  • Andrew Chisholm
  • Victor Ambros
  • Erik Jørgensen
  • Ronald Ellis
  • Michael R. Koelle
  • Gillian M Stanfield
  • Paul W. Sternberg
  • Yi-Chun Wu
  • Erik C Andersen
  • Matthias C Truttmann
  • Niels Ringstad
  • Scott G. Clark
  • Dengke K Ma
  • Joshua Levin
  • Shunji Nakano
  • Yishi Jin
  • Iva Susan Greenwald
  • Shai Shaham
  • Joshua M Kaplan
  • Peter W Reddien
  • Gian Garriga
  • Melissa M Harrison
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