Sid Altman

Sid Altman (born May 7 1939 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian biophysicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on discovering the catalytic properties of RNA.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT in 1960, spent 18 months at Columbia University, and then earned a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Colorado in 1967.