Andrew Fire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrew Fire

American biologist

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1959

Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States

Profession: physician, physicist, biologist, geneticist, pathologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C.
Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi).
This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.