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Maxine Frank Singer (born February 15, 1931) is an American molecular biologist and science administrator. She is known for her contributions to solving the genetic code , her role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniques (including the organization of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA ), and her ...
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Maxine Frank Singer (* 15. Februar 1931 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Biochemikerin und Molekularbiologin. Leben. Singer ging in Brooklyn zur Schule und studierte Chemie und im Nebenfach Biologie am Swarthmore College mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1952. 1957 wurde sie bei Joseph S. Fruton an der Yale University in Biochemie promoviert.
Over the course of a career spanning more than six decades, Maxine Singer has been a pioneering molecular biologist, an influential science administrator, and a leader in science policy and advocacy. She has championed the cause of women and minorities in science, promoted equal access to postgraduate training and career opportunities, and has ...
Maxine Singer is a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who studied the genetic code and the role of LINEs in genetic diseases. She worked at the National Institutes of Health and the Carnegie Institution, and she has been involved in ethical and educational issues of genetics. Learn more about her life and achievements.
Maxine Singer (b. 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose ...
7. März 2024 · Maxine Singer in her laboratory, June 30, 1963. Profiles in Science. In the wake of James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1952 discovery of the double-helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Singer entered the emerging field of nucleic acid chemistry, a decision that brought her to the forefront of the new science of molecular biology.
Brief Chronology. 1931 --Born Maxine Frank in New York City, February 15. 1952 --AB with high honors, Swarthmore College; married Daniel Morris Singer, with whom she would have four children. 1956 --Joined laboratory of nucleic acid biochemist Leon Heppel at the National Institutes of Health. 1957 --PhD in chemistry from Yale University.
