• In 1962, Fiers moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to work in the laboratory of future Nobel laureate, Gobind Khorana. At the end of 1962, Fiers returned to...
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  • baseball player Nadine Fiers (born 1966), Belgian racing cyclist Walter Fiers (1931–2019), Belgian molecular biologist Gustav Fiers, a Marvel Comics supervillain...
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    This work was completed by Fred Sanger and his team in 1977. In 1962, Walter Fiers and Robert Sinsheimer had already demonstrated the physical, covalently...
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    the first genome to be completely sequenced. This was accomplished by Walter Fiers and his team, building upon their earlier milestone in 1972 of the first...
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    Israel Institute of Technology Paul Fredericq (1850–1920), historian Walter Fiers (1931–2019), molecular biologist Leopold Flam (1912–1995), historian...
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    Dulbecco and Howard Temin were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1975. In 1976, Walter Fiers and his team determined the first complete nucleotide sequence of an...
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  • 1972: Walter Fiers and his team were the first to determine the sequence of a gene: the gene for bacteriophage MS2 coat protein. 1976: Walter Fiers and...
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  • Chargaff Barbara McClintock James Watson Francis Crick Francis Collins Walter Fiers Eric Lander Kary Banks Mullis Lap-Chee Tsui Frederick Sanger List of...
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    Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing...
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    labs, the nature of the genetic code was determined (e.g. ). In 1972, Walter Fiers and his team at the University of Ghent were the first to determine the...
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