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Born on April 27, 1959, Andrew Fire is from Palo Alto, California, United States. Andrew Fire is a biologist, geneticist and physician. The age as of 2026 is 67. Education on record includes Fremont High School and University of California, Berkeley. Recorded honors include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006), Canada Gairdner International Award (2005), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2006) and 5 more.
My Take
Andrew Fire genuinely awes me. Raised in Palo Alto and trained at Berkeley, he shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering RNA interference, work that revealed how organisms can switch genes off and reshaped modern medicine and drug development from the ground up. The Gairdner and Paul Ehrlich prizes only underline the scale of it. What I find most appealing, though, is how little noise surrounds him. No scandal, no spectacle, just the patient accumulation of careful experiments. To me he embodies the rarest kind of fame, earned by quietly and profoundly changing the world.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Andrew Fire
- Name (Japanese)
- アンドリュー・ファイアー
- Reading
- あんどりゅー・ふぁいあー
- Born
- April 27, 1959 (age 67)
- Origin
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Occupation
- biologist / geneticist / physician / physicist / pathologist
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Boar
2. Background
- High school
- Fremont High School
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
Awards & achievements
- 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2005 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2006 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 2004 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
- 2005 Massry Prize
- 2004 Rosenstiel Award
- 2002 Meyenburg Prize
- 2002 Genetics Society of America Medal
3. Links
- Official sitehttps://profiles.stanford.edu/andrew-fire
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Fire
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202152
4. About this entry
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Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Andrew Fire born?
Born April 27, 1959 (age 67).
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Andrew Fire is from Palo Alto, California, United States.
What does Andrew Fire do?
Andrew Fire works as biologist, geneticist, physician, physicist, pathologist.
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