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

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