J. Michael Bishop - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1989
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J. Michael Bishop

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1989
for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Together with: Harold E. Varmus
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
2/22/1936
place of birth
York
date of death
3/20/2026
place of death
San Francisco
Lived
90 years
educated at
  • Gettysburg College
    • academic degree: bachelor's degree
  • Harvard Medical School
    • academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
    • end time: 1962
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1984
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1980
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1993
    • start time: 2002
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 2008
  • American Society for Cell Biology
    • start time: 2017
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • American Society for Virology
doctoral student
  • Chi V. Dang
  • Joshua M Kaplan
  • Harold E. Varmus
  • Patrick O. Brown
  • Kari Alitalo
field of work
  • virology
  • microbiology
  • immunology
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • microbiologist
  • immunologist
  • oncologist
  • virologist
  • physician
employer
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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