H. Robert Horvitz

Howard Robert Horvitz (born May 8, 1947) is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Life

Horvitz was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary R. (Savit), a school teacher, and Oscar Freedom Horvitz, a GAO accountant.^[1] 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.

He is currently 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 currently 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.^[2]

Awards

• Spencer Award in Neurobiology
• 1988 U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology
• 1991 He became a member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• 1993 V.D. Mattia Award (Roche Institute of Molecular Biology)
• 1994 Hans Sigrist Award
• 1995 Charles A. Dana Award
• 1996 Ciba-Drew Award for Biomedical Science
• 1998 Rosenstiel Award
• 1998 Pasano Award for the Advancement of Medical Science
• 1998 General Motors Research Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
• 1999 Gairdner Foundation International Award
• 2000 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
• 2000 Segerfalk Award
• 2000 arch of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
• 2000 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry
• 2000 Charles-Leopold Mayer Prize (French Academy of Sciences)
• 2001 Bristol -Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience
• 2001 Genetics Society of American Medal
• 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston

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See also

• History and highlights in apoptosis research
• List of Jewish Nobel laureates

References

1. ↑ Les Prix Nobel - Nobelstiftelsen - Google Books. Books.google.ca. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
2. ↑ "USA Science and Engineering Festival - Advisors". Usasciencefestival.org. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
3. ↑ http://superstarsofscience.com/scientist/h-robert-horvitz

External links

• H. Robert Horvitz - Investigator page at HHMI
• H. Robert Horvitz - Curriculum Vitae
• H. Robert Horvitz - Autobiography
• H. Robert Horvitz's short talk: "Discovering Programmed Cell Death"
• H. Robert Horvitz's short talk: "When Stockholm Called"
• H. Robert Horvitz - US Patents
• The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901–1925 Emil Behring (1901) Ronald Ross (1902) Niels Finsen (1903) Ivan Pavlov (1904) Robert Koch (1905) Camillo Golgi / Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1906) Alphonse Laveran (1907) Élie Metchnikoff / Paul Ehrlich (1908) Emil Kocher (1909) Albrecht Kossel (1910) Allvar Gullstrand (1911) Alexis Carrel (1912) Charles Richet (1913) Róbert Bárány (1914) Jules Bordet (1919) August Krogh (1920) Archibald Hill / Otto Meyerhof (1922) Frederick Banting / John Macleod (1923) Willem Einthoven (1924) 1926–1950 Johannes Fibiger (1926) Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) Charles Nicolle (1928) Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929) Karl Landsteiner (1930) Otto Warburg (1931) Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian (1932) Thomas Morgan (1933) George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy (1934) Hans Spemann (1935) Henry Dale / Otto Loewi (1936) Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937) Corneille Heymans (1938) Gerhard Domagk (1939) Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy (1943) Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser (1944) Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey (1945) Hermann Muller (1946) Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay (1947) Paul Müller (1948) Walter Hess / António Egas Moniz (1949) Edward Kendall / Tadeusz Reichstein / Philip Hench (1950) 1951–1975 Max Theiler (1951) Selman Waksman (1952) Hans Krebs / Fritz Lipmann (1953) John Enders / Thomas Weller / Frederick Robbins (1954) Hugo Theorell (1955) André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards (1956) Daniel Bovet (1957) George Beadle / Edward Tatum / Joshua Lederberg (1958) Severo Ochoa / Arthur Kornberg (1959) Frank Burnet / Peter Medawar (1960) Georg von Békésy (1961) Francis Crick / James Watson / Maurice Wilkins (1962) John Eccles / Alan Hodgkin / Andrew Huxley (1963) Konrad Bloch / Feodor Lynen (1964) François Jacob / André Lwoff / Jacques Monod (1965) Francis Rous / Charles B. Huggins (1966) Ragnar Granit / Haldan Hartline / George Wald (1967) Robert W. Holley / Har Khorana / Marshall Nirenberg (1968) Max Delbrück / Alfred Hershey / Salvador Luria (1969) Bernard Katz / Ulf von Euler / Julius Axelrod (1970) Earl Sutherland, Jr. (1971) Gerald Edelman / Rodney Porter (1972) Karl von Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973) Albert Claude / Christian de Duve / George Palade (1974) David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard Temin (1975) 1976–2000 Baruch Blumberg / Daniel Gajdusek (1976) Roger Guillemin / Andrew Schally / Rosalyn Yalow (1977) Werner Arber / Daniel Nathans / Hamilton O. Smith (1978) Allan Cormack / Godfrey Hounsfield (1979) Baruj Benacerraf / Jean Dausset / George Snell (1980) Roger Sperry / David H. Hubel / Torsten Wiesel (1981) Sune Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane (1982) Barbara McClintock (1983) Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein (1984) Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein (1985) Stanley Cohen / Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986) Susumu Tonegawa (1987) James W. Black / Gertrude B. Elion / George H. Hitchings (1988) J. Michael Bishop / Harold E. Varmus (1989) Joseph Murray / E. Donnall Thomas (1990) Erwin Neher / Bert Sakmann (1991) Edmond Fischer / Edwin G. Krebs (1992) Richard J. Roberts / Phillip Sharp (1993) Alfred G. Gilman / Martin Rodbell (1994) Edward B. Lewis / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard / Eric F. Wieschaus (1995) Peter C. Doherty / Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1996) Stanley B. Prusiner (1997) Robert F. Furchgott / Louis Ignarro / Ferid Murad (1998) Günter Blobel (1999) Arvid Carlsson / Paul Greengard / Eric Kandel (2000) 2001–present Leland H. Hartwell / Tim Hunt / Paul Nurse (2001) Sydney Brenner / H. Robert Horvitz / John E. Sulston (2002) Paul Lauterbur / Peter Mansfield (2003) Richard Axel / Linda B. Buck (2004) Barry Marshall / Robin Warren (2005) Andrew Fire / Craig Mello (2006) Mario Capecchi / Martin Evans / Oliver Smithies (2007) Harald zur Hausen / Luc Montagnier / Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (2008) Elizabeth Blackburn / Carol W. Greider / Jack W. Szostak (2009) Robert G. Edwards (2010) Bruce Beutler / Jules A. Hoffmann / Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously) (2011) John B. Gurdon / Shinya Yamanaka (2012) James Rothman / Randy Schekman / Thomas C. Südhof (2013) John O'Keefe / May-Britt Moser / Edvard Moser (2014)