The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's
Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to
Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech
for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

Sidney Altman
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Thomas R. Cech
University of Colorado
at Boulder, USA

Contents:
Introduction » The chemistry of life and its central dogma » Enzymes – biological catalysts » Ribonucleic acid (RNA) – the biomolecule which can do it all » The history of biocatalysis » What happens next? » Further reading »
Based on materials from the 1989 Nobel Poster for Chemistry. Credits and references for the poster »