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Phillip A. Sharp held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1993, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Ralf Pettersson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 980 kB.
- Biographical
Phillip A. Sharp Biographical . A sense of place was and...
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Phillip Sharp: I mean from a biologist’s point of view the...
- Biographical
Sharp is the Chairman of the Scientific Board at Biogen and a member of its Board of Directors. In 1985, Sharp became the director of the Center for Cancer Research after Salvador Luria retired. In 1991, he stepped down as director and became the head of the Department of Biology at MIT.
Phillip Sharp: I mean from a biologist’s point of view the fewer the better because we would like to understand how those genes function in the physiology of what makes us work as a human being and the estimate at the end of the day was that there are 35,000 genes.
English biochemist Richard John Roberts shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with American biochemist Phillip Allen Sharp (1944-) for their independent discovery of split genes.
- Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle
- 2003
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard J. Roberts, for his independent discovery that individual genes are often interrupted by long sections of DNA that do not encode protein structure.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Phillip A. Sharp's interview begins with a discussion of his family. He details his genealogy, from his great grandparents to his current extended family. Sharp then discusses his childhood in Falmouth, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Sharp is the Chairman of the Scientific Board at Biogen and a member of its Board of Directors. In 1985, Sharp became the director of the Center for Cancer Research after Salvador Luria retired. In 1991, he stepped down as director and became the head of the Department of Biology at MIT.