FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
WernerArber (born June 3, 1929) is a Swiss microbiologist.
Arber would work at the University of Southern California and later at the University of Basel.
Along with fellow researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Arber received the 1978Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.