Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and... Wikipedia
Born: December 10, 1934, Philadelphia, PA
Died: February 9, 1994 (age 59 years), Madison, WI
Notable student: Tak Wah Mak
Education: California Institute of Technology and Swarthmore College
Children: 2
Thesis: The interaction of Rous sarcoma virus and cells in vitro (1960)