Werner arber biography
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Born3rd June, 1929 (Granichen, Switzerland)
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist who together with Daisy Dussoix helped discover and understand the mechanism of restriction enzymes, laying the foundation for their adoption as molecular scissors.
These enzymes today are a fundamental tool for many different types of biotechnology, including DNA sequencing and gene cloning.
Werner arber biography
Werner Arber, 2008 (Photo credit: Antonio G Colombo)
Family
Werner Arber grew up in a Protestant family who lived in Granichen, a village in the German-speaking part of Switzerland half way between Bern and Zurich.
Both his parents and grandparents were farmers and as a boy he worked in the fields. In 1966 he married Antonia Arber and had two daughters, Silvia and Caroline, born respectively in 1968 and 1974.
Education
Up to the age of 16 Arber attended public schools and then went to the Kantonsschule Aarau.
Some of his favourite subjects at school were science an