Herbert Boyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Herbert Boyer

American researcher and businessman

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1936

Place of Birth: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: businessperson, biologist, biotechnologist, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology.
Along with Stanley N.
Cohen and Paul Berg he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, thereby jump starting the field of genetic engineering.
By 1969, he performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties.
He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson–MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech.
He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991.