Sydney Altman

Sidney Altman (Montreal, May 7, 1939 - Rockleigh, New Jersey, April 5, 2022) was a Canadian biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 along with Thomas R. Cech for the discovery of the catalytic properties of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Both researchers from Yale University demonstrated that RNA is the chemical support of heredity, taking part in the chemical reactions that made possible the appearance of life on earth.

Education

She was born in Montreal, Quebec. He earned his BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1960, spent 18 months as a physics graduate student at Columbia University, and then earned his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Colorado in 1967. Currently, and from 1971, he was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) of biology at Yale University.

Some posts

• Altman, Sidney (2007). «A view of RNase P.». Mol Biosyst (Sep 2007) 3 (9): 604-7. PMID 17700860. doi:10.1039/b707850c.

• Altman, S; Baer, M F; Bartkiewicz, M; Gold, H; Guerrier-Takada, C; Kirsebom, LA; Lumelsky, N; Peck, K (1989). «Catalysis by the RNA subunit of RNase P-a minireview.». Gene (Oct 15, 1989) 82 (1): 63-4. PMID 2479591. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(89)90030-9.