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Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA.
Thomas R. Cech. Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry • Director, Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute • Member, Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute. thomas.cech@colorado.edu.
Dec 8, 2011 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Thomas R. Cech. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989. Born: 8 December 1947, Chicago, IL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”. Prize share: 1/2.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Jun 9, 2024 · Thomas Robert Cech (born Dec. 8, 1947, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who, with Sidney Altman, was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA (ribonucleic acid).
Dr. Thomas Cech, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with CNN, provides insight into how RNA has impacted modern medicine and biology and how mRNA, holds promise for future vaccines and other scientific and health-related breakthroughs.
Jun 5, 2024 · In 1989, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sidney Altman for their discovery that RNA “is not only a molecule of heredity, but also can function as a biocatalyst,” or enzyme ...
