Daniel Nathans

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1978

Restriction Endonucleases, Simian Virus 40, and the New Genetics

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1971-1980, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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