Andrew Fire
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Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959 in Palo Alto, California) is an American biologist. He is a professor of pathology and genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Fire was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of RNA interference. The research was conducted at Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
[change] Education
Fire completed high school at age 15. He wanted to study at Stanford University, where he would later work, but was not accepted.[1] He studied at the University of California-Berkeley. Fire graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics at age 19. Fire earned a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983.[2]
[change] References
- ↑ "Andrew Fire shares Nobel Prize for discovering how double-stranded RNA can switch off genes - Nobel Prize - Featured Topics - Stanford University School of Medicine". med.stanford.edu. 2011 [last update]. http://med.stanford.edu/featured_topics/nobel/fire/. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
- ↑ "MIT alum shares Nobel Prize in physiology". web.mit.edu. October 2, 2006. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/fire.html. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
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