The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-07
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Affiliations:
- Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
Thomas A. Steitz
Born: 1940-08-23 in Milwaukee, WI, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist (1940–2018)
Biography
Thomas Arthur Steitz was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome.