Charles Weissmann

Hungarian-Swiss biologist (born 1931)

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Charles Weissmann

Weissmann in 1982

Born|  (1931-10-14) 14 October 1931 (age 92)
Alma mater| University of Zurich

Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and "mad cow disease".

Weissmann went to University of Zurich and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. In 1978, Weissmann co-founded the biotech company Biogen in Geneva. Biogen is considered one of the pioneers of the biotechnology industries. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and co-founder and Member of the Scientific Council of Biogen. He was Chairman of the Department of Infectology, Scripps Florida until 2011.

Weissmann won several awards, including the Otto Warburg Medal (1980) and the Scheele Award (1982). A member of the American Society of Biological Chemistry and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina he is also a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society (UK) and the Pour le Mérite (Germany). On 16 May 2011 Weissmann became Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at New York University.

## Awards

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* Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1974).
* Otto Warburg Medal (1980).
* Scheele Award (1982).
* Wilhelm Exner Medal (1996).[1]
* Max Delbrück Medal (1997)
* Mendel Medal (1998)

## References

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1. ^ Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.

## External links

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* Profile at The Scripps Research Institute
* "Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award"

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Heineken Prizes

Biochemistry and Biophysics|

* Chargaff (1964)
* Brachet (1967)
* Chance (1970)
* De Duve (1973)
* Van Deenen (1976)
* Klug (1979)
* Weissmann (1982)
* Julesz & Reichardt (1985)
* Cech (1988)
* Leder (1990)
* Borst (1992)
* Berridge (1994)
* Nurse (1996)
* Pawson (1998)
* Rothman (2000)
* Tsien (2002)
* Fire (2004)
* Jeffreys (2006)
* Szostak (2008)
* Hartl (2010)
* De Lange (2012)
* Dobson (2014)
* Doudna (2016)
* Zhuang (2018)
* Stillman (2020)

Medicine|

* Lauterbur (1989)
* Van Rood (1990)
* Moncada (1992)
* Montagnier (1994)
* De Wied (1996)
* Marshall (1998)
* Kandel (2000)
* Selkoe (2002)
* Blackburn (2004)
* King (2006)
* Peto (2008)
* Steinman (2010)
* Clevers (2012)
* Alitalo (2014)
* Jackson (2016)
* Carmeliet (2018)
* Deisseroth (2020)

Environmental Sciences|

* Lovelock (1990)
* Branica (1992)
* BirdLife International (1994)
* Daly (1996)
* Ehrlich (1998)
* Harremoës (2000)
* Thompson (2002)
* Levin (2004)
* Pimm (2006)
* Brunekreef (2008)
* Tilman (2010)
* Laurance (2012)
* Sinninghe Damsté (2014)
* Mace (2016)
* Hebert (2018)
* Le Quéré (2020)

History|

* Gay (1990)
* Van der Wee (1992)
* Brown (1994)
* Oberman (1996)
* Ozouf (1998)
* De Vries (2000)
* Schilling (2002)
* Le Goff (2004)
* Mokyr (2006)
* Israel (2008)
* McKitterick (2010)
* Parker (2012)
* Assmann (2014)
* Herrin (2016)
* McNeill (2018)
* Daston (2020)

Cognitive Science|

* Anderson (2006)
* Dehaene (2008)
* Tomasello (2010)
* Duncan (2012)
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* Spelke (2016)
* Kanwisher (2018)
* Zatorre (2020)

Art|

* Verhoef (1988)
* Bot (1990)
* C. Visser (1992)
* Röling (1994)
* Martens (1996)
* Van de Pavert (1998)
* Geelen (2000)
* Mik (2002)
* Van Golden (2004)
* Koelewijn (2006)
* B. Visser (2008)
* Manders (2010)
* Struycken (2012)
* Van Oldenborgh (2014)
* Dröge Wendel (2016)
* Van Lieshout (2018)
* Blom (2020)

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Fellows|

* Martin Aitken
* Patrick Bateson
* Edward Cocking
* Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
* Pierre Deslongchamps
* William Douglas
* R. John Ellis
* Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
* Alan Fersht
* William Alexander Gambling
* Ian Graham Gass
* Ian Gibbons
* George Gray
* Ray Guillery
* Richard Henderson
* Peter Higgs
* Christopher Hooley
* Anthony James
* Peter Lawrence
* John Lawson
* George Lusztig
* C David Marsden
* Donald Metcalf
* Keith O'Nions
* Ted Paige
* Michael Pepper
* Michael J. D. Powell
* Philip Randle
* Ivan Roitt
* Alan Sargeson
* Dennis Sciama
* Ian Sneddon
* Edwin Southern
* Brian Spalding
* Nigel Unwin
* Ian Ward
* Felix Weinberg
* Charles Weissmann
* John Westcott
* Dudley Williams

Statute 12|

* David Attenborough
* Margaret Thatcher

Foreign|

* Anatole Abragam
* G. Evelyn Hutchinson
* Jean Leray
* Henry Stommel
* Frank Westheimer

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Academics|

* Leopoldina
* Scopus

Other|

* Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
* SNAC

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