The Temin Effect

Many years ago, one of us (M.G.) interviewed the biologist Howard Temin. Temin had just won the Nobel Prize for his work on the discovery of reverse transcriptase —the class of enzymes capable of creating DNA from a RNA template—and he was an unforgettable figure. He had a wiry shock of hair and a wry smile. He was raised by activist parents in Philadelphia. His bar mitzvah money was donated to a refugee camp. His valedictory address in high school was ab out the hydrogen bomb. He had read deeply about philosophy and literature, and during the interview he spent as much time, brilliantly, in the larger world of ideas as he did talking about his own work in molecular biology.
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