The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-12
"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Affiliations:
- Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
Sidney Altman
Born: 1939-05-07 in Montreal, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian-American molecular biologist (1939–2022)
Biography
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.