Walter Gilbert (1987)
Child prodigy and yet another physics convert, Gilbert was a Harvard physics professor who found himself spending more and more time in biology laboratories. His switch to biology helped foster a new generation of scientists.
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16694. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 1
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Jacob and Monod discovered that genes control the amount of protein in a cell.
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16700. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 7
To explain their data, Jacob and Monod had to hypothesize the existence of mRNA.
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