What is Andrew Fire?
[[File:Andrew Fire, Stanford University.jpg|200px|right]] '''Andrew Zachary Fire''' (born April 27, 1959 in [[Palo Alto, California]]) is an [[Americans|American]] [[biologist]]. He is a [[professor]] of [[pathology]] and [[genetics]] at [[Stanford University]] [[Stanford University School of Medicine|School of Medicine]]. Fire was given the 2006 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for the discovery of [[RNA interference]]. The research was conducted at [[Carnegie Institution for Science]] and published in 1998. == Education == Fire completed [[high school]] at age 15. He wanted to study at [[Stanford University]], where he would later work, but was not accepted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://med.stanford.edu/featured_topics/nobel/fire/ |title=Andrew Fire shares Nobel Prize for discovering how double-stranded RNA can switch off genes - Nobel Prize - Featured Topics - Stanford University School of Medicine |work=med.stanford.edu |year=2011 |access-date=March 29, 2011 |archive-date=January 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108061721/http://med.stanford.edu/featured_topics/nobel/fire/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He studied at the [[University of California]]at [[Berkeley]]. Fire [[graduation|graduated]] with a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[mathematics]] at 19, and earned a [[PhD]] from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/fire.html |title=MIT alum shares Nobel Prize in physiology |work=web.mit.edu |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=March 29, 2011}}</ref> == Nobel prize == In 2006, Fire and [[Craig Mello]] shared the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for work first published in 1998 in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref name=Fire>Fire A.; Xu S.; Montgomery M.; Kostas S.; Driver S.; Mello C. 1998. Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans. ''Nature'' '''391''' (6669): 806–811. Bibcode 1998Natur.391..806F. DOI:10.1038/35888. PMID 9486653</ref> The p