Werner Arber (born June 3, 1929) is a Swiss microbiologist. He attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Arber would work at the University of Southern California and later at the University of Basel. As a laboratory assistant at the University of Geneva, he researched bacteriophages and wrote his dissertation on defective lambda prophage mutants.

Along with fellow researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Arber received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.

Currently, Arber is married and has two daughters.

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