Thomas A. Steitz
Academic
1940 –
Who is Thomas A. Steitz?
Thomas Arthur Steitz is the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven.
Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007 "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1940
Milwaukee - Also known as
- Thomas Steitz
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lawrence University
- Harvard University
- Wauwatosa East High School
- Lived in
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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