Sidney Altman - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1989
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Sidney Altman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1989
for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Together with: Thomas Cech
Citizenship
Canada Canada United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/7/1939
place of birth
Montreal
date of death
4/5/2022
place of death
Rockleigh
Lived
82 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1990
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
educated at
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Columbia University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
field of work
  • molecular biology
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • biophysicist
  • molecular biologist
doctoral student
  • Benjamin C. Stark
employer
  • Harvard University
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