Michael Houghton Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Michael Houghton

Born	1949 (age 71–72)
Alma mater	University of East Anglia (BSc) King's College London (PhD)
Known for	Hepatitis C Hepatitis D
Awards	Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award (1992) Robert Koch Prize (1993) William Beaumont Prize (1994) Lasker Award (2000) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2013 – declined) Nobel Prize for Medicine (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology Virology
Institutions	University of Alberta Chiron Corporation
Thesis	RNA Polymerases and Transcription in the Chicken Oviduct (1977)

Michael Houghton (born 1949) is a British scientist. He co-discovered Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986.

He is the co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1901 – 1925	Behring (1901) · Ross (1902) · Finsen (1903) · Pavlov (1904) · Koch (1905) · Golgi / Ramón y Cajal (1906) · Laveran (1907) · Mechnikov / Ehrlich (1908) · Kocher (1909) · Kossel (1910) · Gullstrand (1911) · Carrel (1912) · Richet (1913) · Bárány (1914) · Bordet (1919) · Krogh (1920) · Hill / Meyerhof (1922) · Banting / Macleod (1923) · Einthoven (1924)

1926 – 1950	Fibiger (1926) · Wagner-Jauregg (1927) · Nicolle (1928) · Eijkman / Hopkins (1929) · Landsteiner (1930) · Warburg (1931) · Sherrington / Adrian (1932) · Morgan (1933) · Whipple / Minot / Murphy (1934) · Spemann (1935) · Dale / Loewi (1936) · Szent-Györgyi (1937) · Heymans (1938) · Domagk (1939) · Dam / Doisy (1943) · Erlanger / Gasser (1944) · Fleming / Chain / Florey (1945) · Muller (1946) · C.Cori / G.Cori / Houssay (1947) · Müller (1948) · Hess / Moniz (1949) · Kendall / Reichstein / Hench (1950)

1951 – 1975	Theiler (1951) · Waksman (1952) · Krebs / Lipmann (1953) · Enders / Weller / Robbins (1954) · Theorell (1955) · Cournand / Forssmann / Richards (1956) · Bovet (1957) · Beadle / Tatum / Lederberg (1958) · Ochoa / Kornberg (1959) · Burnet / Medawar (1960) · Békésy (1961) · Crick / Watson / Wilkins (1962) · Eccles / Hodgkin / Huxley (1963) · Bloch / Lynen (1964) · Jacob / Lwoff / Monod (1965) · Rous / Huggins (1966) · Granit / Hartline / Wald (1967) · Holley / Khorana / Nirenberg (1968) · Delbrück / Hershey / Luria (1969) · Katz / Euler / Axelrod (1970) · Sutherland (1971) · Edelman / Porter (1972) · Frisch / Lorenz / Tinbergen (1973) · Claude / Duve / Palade (1974) · Baltimore / Temin / Dulbecco (1975)

1976 – 2000	Blumberg / Gajdusek (1976) · Guillemin / Schally / Yalow (1977) · Arber / Nathans / Smith (1978) · Cormack / Hounsfield (1979) · Benacerraf / Dausset / Snell (1980) · Sperry / Hubel / Wiesel (1981) · Bergström / Samuelsson / Vane (1982) · McClintock (1983) · Jerne / Köhler / Milstein (1984) · Brown / Goldstein (1985) · Stanley Cohen / Levi-Montalcini (1986) · Tonegawa (1987) · Black / Elion / Hitchings (1988) · Bishop / Varmus (1989) · Murray / Thomas (1990) · Neher / Sakmann (1991) · Fischer / Krebs (1992) · Roberts / Sharp (1993) · Gilman / Rodbell (1994) · Lewis / Nüsslein-Volhard / Wieschaus (1995) · Doherty / Zinkernagel (1996) · Prusiner (1997) · Furchgott / Ignarro / Murad (1998) · Blobel (1999) · Carlsson / Greengard / Kandel (2000)

2001 – present	Hartwell / Hunt / Nurse (2001) · Brenner / Horvitz / Sulston (2002) · Lauterbur / Mansfield (2003) · Axel / Buck (2004) · Marshall / Warren (2005) · Fire / Mello (2006) · Capecchi / Evans / Smithies (2007) · Barré-Sinoussi / Montagnier / zur Hausen (2008) · Blackburn / Greider / Szostak (2009) · Edwards (2010) · Beutler / Hoffmann; Steinman (2011) · Gurdon / Yamanaka (2012) · Rothman / Schekman / Südhof (2013) · O'Keefe / M-B. Moser / E. Moser (2014) · Campbell / Ōmura / Youyou (2015) · Ohsumi (2016) · Hall / Rosbash / Young (2017) · Allison / Honjo (2018) · Semenza / Ratcliffe / Kaelin Jr. (2019) · Atler / Houghton / Rice (2020) ·

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