Sidney Altman



         


Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian born molecular biologist, working in the USA 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.

He received his bachelor's degree in physics from MIT in 1960, and a PhD in biophysics at the University of Colorado in 1967.


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