Sid Altman
Molecular Biology
Discovered catalytic RNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1989 "Don’t worry if things change. Just do what you do best." |
- Birthdate
- May 7, 1939
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec
- Residence
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Family Members
- Father, Victor Altman; Mother, Ray Arlin; has two children, one boy and one girl
- Personality
- Modest, quiet, loyal
- Favorite Music
- Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
- Title
- Sterling Professor of Biology, Chair of Biology, Professor of Chemistry, Dean at Yale University
- Office
- Biology Department, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
- Status
- Working
- Degrees
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- BSc (Physics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960
- PhD (Biophysics) University of Colorado, 1967
- Awards
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- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1989
- Rosenstiel Award for Basic Biomedical Research, 1989
- National Institutes of Health Merit Award, 1989
- Yale Science and Engineering Association Award, 1990
- Mentor
Leonard Lerman, a professor of molecular biology at U. of Colorado who got him interested in molecular biology and introduced him to Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner.
- Last Updated
- October 5, 2010
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