Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon | |
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| Born | 7 February 1931 |
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| Institutions | Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology |
Pierre Chambon (French pronunciation: nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiology. His group was also one of the first to demonstrate, biochemically and electron-microscopically, that the nucleosome is the smallest unit of chromatin (Cell, Vol. 4, 281–300, 1975). He accomplished much of his work in the 1970s – 1990s.
Chambon was elected a Foreign Associate of the US
Gairdner Foundation International Award "for the elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of transcription in animal cells and to the discovery of the nuclear receptor superfamily".[4] In 2018 he received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for a second time.[5]
Notes
- ^ Chambon named his three polymerases A, B, C. The now-more-common designations I, II, III were the nomenclature used by Robert G. Roeder and William J. Rutter.
References
- ^ "Professor Pierre CHAMBON | Jeantet". 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ "Pierre Chambon - USIAS - University of Strasbourg". www.usias.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien". 2017-11-10. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ Pierre Chambon, M.D. - The Gairdner Foundation Archived June 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
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