Harold E. Varmus - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1989
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Harold E. Varmus

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1989
for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Together with: J. Michael Bishop
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/18/1939
place of birth
Oceanside
Age
86 years
position held
  • director
    • start time: 11/23/1993
    • end time: 12/31/1999
  • director
    • end time: 2015
    • start time: 2010
  • Plan S Ambassador
employer
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • United States National Institutes of Health
  • Cornell University
educated at
  • Freeport High School
  • Amherst College
  • Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Columbia University
  • Harvard University
doctoral student
  • Joshua M Kaplan
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • virology
occupation
  • university teacher
  • virologist
  • physician
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