Herbert Boyer
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Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert Boyer canonical | 4 |
| Herbert W. Boyer | 3 |
| Cohen–Boyer patents on recombinant DNA | 1 |
| Herbert Wayne Boyer | 1 |
| Paul Berg | 1 |
| co-founding Genentech | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biochemist
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biotechnology entrepreneur ⓘ genetic engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD in bacteriology and immunology
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bachelor's degree in biology ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
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surface form:
Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science
National Medal of Science ⓘ National Medal of Technology and Innovation ⓘ |
| coFounded | Genentech ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Robert Swanson
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert A. Swanson
|
| collaboratedWith | Stanley N. Cohen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-07-10 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Richard H. Stahlman ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Saint Vincent College
ⓘ
University of Pittsburgh ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, San Francisco ⓘ |
| familyName | Boyer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
ⓘ
biotechnology ⓘ genetic engineering ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Herbert ⓘ |
| hasPatentOn | methods for recombinant DNA cloning ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the modern biotechnology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Herbert Boyer
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cohen–Boyer patents on recombinant DNA
co-founding Genentech ⓘ pioneering genetic engineering in bacteria ⓘ recombinant DNA technology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name |
Herbert Boyer
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Herbert Wayne Boyer
|
| notableStudentOrCollaborator | Stanley N. Cohen ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of methods to insert foreign DNA into plasmids
ⓘ
production of recombinant human growth hormone ⓘ production of recombinant human insulin in bacteria ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Derry, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of biochemistry at UCSF
ⓘ
vice president of Genentech ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedResearchTechnique |
DNA ligase
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restriction enzymes ⓘ |
| workLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Herbert Boyer Description of subject: Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paul Berg
this entity surface form:
co-founding Genentech
this entity surface form:
Herbert Wayne Boyer
this entity surface form:
Cohen–Boyer patents on recombinant DNA
subject surface form:
Derry, Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
Herbert W. Boyer
this entity surface form:
Herbert W. Boyer
this entity surface form:
Herbert W. Boyer