GILBERT, Walter (1932 – )

GILBERT, Walter (1932 – ) MÜLLER-HILL, Benno (1933 – 2018)

With his Ph.D. student Benno Müller-Hill, Gilbert was the first to purify the lac repressor, just beating out Mark Ptashne for purifying the first gene regulatory protein.

GILBERT, Walter (1932 – ) MAXAM, Allan M. (1942 – )

The Gilbert-Maxam method for sequencing DNA. This paper is available from PNAS at this link. In 1980 Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg. Berg received half of the priz…