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Thomas Steitz

American biophysicist and biochemist
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
August 23, 1940, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died:
October 9, 2018, Branford, Connecticut (aged 78)
Awards And Honors:
Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study:
RNA
endoplasmic reticulum
protein
recombination
translation
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Thomas Steitz (born August 23, 1940, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.—died October 9, 2018, Branford, Connecticut) American biophysicist and biochemist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with Indian-born American physicist and molecular biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes. (Ribosomes are tiny particles made up of RNA and proteins that specialize in protein synthesis and are found free or bound to the endoplasmic reticulum within cells.) Steitz received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1962 from Lawrence College in Wisconsin and a ...(100 of 382 words)

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