Arber is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

Agnes Arber Agnes Robertson Arber FRS (23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the las ...

(1879–1960), British botanist and philosopher of biology *

Edward Arber Edward Arber (4 December 183623 November 1912) was an English scholar, writer, and editor. Background and professional work Arber was born in London. From 1854 he 1878 he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty, and began evening classes at King ...

(1836–1912), British academic and writer *

Edward Alexander Newell Arber Edward Alexander Newell Arber (5 August 1870, London – 14 June 1918, Cambridge) was an England, English botanist and paleontologist. He was a professor at the University of Cambridge specialising in palaeobotany. He married plant morphologi ...

, British paleobotanist *

Silvia Arber Silvia Arber (born 1968 in Geneva) is a Swiss neurobiologist. She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland. Life Silvia Arber ...

(born 1968), Swiss neurobiologist *

Werner Arber Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the disco ...

(born 1929), Swiss microbiologist and geneticist

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