Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian-born molecular biologist, who is currently 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 Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.

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

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