What is Walter Gilbert?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Walter Gilbert | image = WalterGilbert2.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|03|21}} | birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] | residence = | nationality = [[United States|U.S.]] | field = [[Biochemistry]], [[physics]] | work_institutions = [[Harvard University]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]], [[University of Cambridge]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Abdus Salam]] | doctoral_students = [[Gerald Guralnik]] | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] }} '''Walter Gilbert''' (born March 21, 1932) is an [[United States|American]] [[physicist]], [[biochemist]], [[molecular biology]] pioneer, and [[Nobel laureate]]. He helped develop [[DNA]] [[sequence analysis]]. ==Biography== Gilbert was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], on March 21, 1932.<ref name=Shampo>{{cite journal |author=Shampo MA, Kyle RA |title=Walter Gilbert--1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry |journal=Mayo Clin. Proc. |volume=78 |issue=5 |pages=588 |date=May 2003 |pmid=12744546 |doi= 10.4065/78.5.588|url=http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=12744546 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Gilbert attended [[Harvard University]] for undergraduate and graduate studies, earning a first degree in [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] in 1953 and a [[master's degree]] in physics in 1954.<ref name=Shampo/> Gilbert's doctoral work was done at the [[University of Cambridge]], where he earned his PhD in [[mathematics]] under the mentorship of Nobel laureate [[Abdus Salam]] in 1957.<ref name=Shampo/> Gilbert returned to Harvard in 1957 and promoted in 1968 to professor of biochemistry.<ref name=Shampo/> In 1969, Gilbert was given Harvard's Ledlie Prize.<ref name=Shampo/> In 1972, Gilbert was named [[American Cancer Society]] Professor of Molecu