Education
He earned his Bachelor of Surgery degree in Chemistry in 1952 at the University of Illinois, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biochemistry in 1955 from Northwestern University.
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Career
He did basic research developing new anticancer drugs at Abbott Laboratories (North Chicago, Illinois) for 12 years (1956-1968). He joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, and became Professor Emeritus in 1999. His research contributions include elucidation of the mechanism of genetic missense suppression in bacteria, the development of techniques to make genomic libraries using recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid, techniques for using yeast for deoxyribonucleic acid cloning, characterization of centromere deoxyribonucleic acid, and construction of the first artificial chromosomes.
Carbon was among the founding scientific advisors of the Amgen Corporation.
An endowed chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California Santa Barbara was named for Carbon. The chair is currently held by Jamey Marth.
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National Academy of Sciences.
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1968 (aged 37)