The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-12
"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Affiliations:
- University of Colorado – Boulder, CO, USA
Thomas R. Cech
Born: 1947-12-08 in Chicago, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist
Biography
Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.