Howard Martin Temin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Howard Martin Temin

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1934

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1994

Profession: biochemist, geneticist, virologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was a US geneticist and virologist.
He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.