The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993
Awarded on: 1993-10-11
"for their discoveries of split genes"
Affiliations:
- New England Biolabs – Beverly, MA, USA
Richard J. Roberts
Born: 1943-09-06 in Derby, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British biochemist (born 1943)
Biography
Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.