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Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)

Sidney Altman was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.

7 May 1939

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