H. Robert Horvitz

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H. Robert Horvitz
Born Howard Robert Horvitz
(1947-05-08) May 8, 1947 (age 77)[1]
Chicago
Nationality American
Fields Biology
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Thesis Modifications of the host RNA polymerase induced by coliphage T4 (1974)
Notable students Cornelia Bargmann[citation needed] Gary Ruvkun
Known for Apoptosis research
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Spouse Martha Constantine-Paton
Website
web.mit.edu/horvitz/www/

Howard Robert Horvitz (born May 8, 1947) is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans,[4][5][6] for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston.

Education and early life

Horvitz was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary R. (Savit), a school teacher, and Oscar Freedom Horvitz, a GAO accountant. He did his undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi. He obtained his PhD in Biology from Harvard University in 1974.

Career

As of 2015, Horvitz is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is Professor of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He also serves as the chair of the board of trustees for Society for Science & the Public.

Horvitz is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board.[7]

Works

Robert Horvitz has over 255 publications, has been cited over 49,000 times and has an h-index of 108.[8]

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Awards and honors

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See also

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Further reading

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