Arber

[ahr-ber]

noun

Werner,born 1929, Swiss microbiologist: shared Nobel Prize 1978.

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Professor Arber's other texts are reprinted substantially as they stood.
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse
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In the Ferns he made important contributions to our knowledge of the group now familiar to botanists as the Primofilices of Arber.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists
Various
The second edition was advertised in 1678 (Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 323).
The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times
Kathleen Lambley
Prof. Arber's discussion of the subject in his edition of Smith's Works is sentimental rather than critical.
The Beginners of a Nation
Edward Eggleston.
Grosart regarded Fenton's work, 1579, as the source from which Lynche got the bare bones of his story, and Arber agreed.
Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)
Dunstan Gale

British Dictionary definitions for arber

Arber

noun

Werner. born 1929, Swiss microbiologist, noted for his work on restriction enzymes. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1978

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Arber

[är′bər]Werner Born 1929

Swiss microbiologist. He shared a 1978 Nobel Prize for the discovery of restriction enzymes, an important step in the development of genetic engineering.

arber in Science

Arber

[är′bər]Werner Born 1929

Swiss microbiologist who postulated the existence of restriction enzymes, selective enzymes that break down molecules of DNA into pieces small enough to be separated for individual study but large enough to retain bits of the original substance's genetic information. These enzymes (later isolated by Hamilton Smith) laid the foundation for the science of genetic engineering, and for this work Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Smith and Daniel Nathans.