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He discovered reverse transcriptase in the s [ 1 ] at the University of Wisconsin—Madison , for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.

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The director of the program, C. Little , told his parents that Temin was "unquestionably the finest scientist of the fifty-seven students who have attended the program since the beginning I can't help but feel this boy is destined to become a really great man in the field of science. Temin's parents raised their family to have values associated with social justice and independent thinking, which was evident throughout his life.

For Temin's bar mitzvah , the family donated money that would have been spent on the party to a local camp for displaced persons. Temin was also the valedictorian of his class and he devoted his speech to relevant issues at the time including the recent hydrogen bomb activity and the news of sending a man to the moon.

Temin received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in majoring and minoring in biology in the honors program. He received his doctorate degree in animal virology from the California Institute of Technology in Temin's first exposure to experimental science was during his time at the California Institute of Technology as a graduate student in laboratory of Professor Renato Dulbecco.

He became interested Dulbecco's lab after a chance run-in with Harry Rubin , a postdoctoral fellow in Dulbecco's lab.