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Werner, born 1929, Swiss microbiologist: shared Nobel Prize 1978.
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Mr. Arber has here furnished us with one of the most curious and interesting books even of his rich series.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV Various

In the Ferns he made important contributions to our knowledge of the group now familiar to botanists as the Primofilices of Arber.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists Various

Professor Arber’s other texts are reprinted substantially as they stood.
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Various

The second edition was advertised in 1678 (Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 323).
The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times Kathleen Lambley

Mr. Arber continues his munificent and inestimable work with increasing efficiency, and we infer with increasing encouragement.
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Prof. Arber’s discussion of the subject in his edition of Smith’s Works is sentimental rather than critical.
The Beginners of a Nation Edward Eggleston.

The first book, 58 pages in the Arber reprint, deals with definition, purpose and subject matter of poetry.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance Donald Lemen Clark

Grosart regarded Fenton’s work, 1579, as the source from which Lynche got the bare bones of his story, and Arber agreed.
Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) Dunstan Gale

These texts are printed by Mr. Arber in four parallel columns, Nos.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV Various

It is a perfect luxury to read the scholarly, modest, and painstaking bibliography of Mr. Arber.
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Werner. born 1929, Swiss microbiologist, noted for his work on restriction enzymes. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1978

Arber Ar·ber (är’bər), Werner. Born 1929.

Swiss microbiologist. He shared a 1978 Nobel Prize for the discovery of restriction enzymes, an important step in the development of genetic engineering.
Arber
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Swiss microbiologist who postulated the existence of restriction enzymes, selective enzymes that break down molecules of DNA into pieces small enough to be separated for individual study but large enough to retain bits of the original substance’s genetic information. These enzymes (later isolated by Hamilton Smith) laid the foundation for the science of genetic engineering, and for this work Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Smith and Daniel Nathans.