Sidney Altman - Autobiography sidney altman Autobiography. I was born in Montreal in 1939, the secondson of poor immigrants. My achieved. From Les Prix nobel 1989. http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1989/altman-autobio.html
Extractions: I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill and my father in a grocery store before they met and married. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education. No sacrifice was too great to forward our education and, fortunately, books and the tradition of study were not unknown in our family. I am conscious of two events that sparked my early interest in science, the first being the appearance of the A-bomb. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. I added various writers of fiction and stars of ice hockey and baseball to my pantheon.
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Extractions: (b. May 7, 1939, Montreal, Que., Can.), Canadian-American molecular biologist who, with Thomas R. Cech , received the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA, or ribonucleic acid. Altman attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1960, in physics) and the University of Colorado (Ph.D., 1967, in biophysics). He was a molecular biology fellow at Harvard University (1967-69) and at the University of Cambridge (1969-70) before joining the biology faculty at Yale University in 1971. He became a full professor at Yale in 1980, was the department chairman from 1983 to 1985, and served as dean of the undergraduate Yale College from 1985 to 1989. He took U.S. citizenship in 1984 but concurrently retained his Canadian citizenship. Working independently, Altman and Cech discovered a new role for RNA. The old belief was that enzymatic activitythe triggering and acceleration of vital chemical reactions within living cellswas the exclusive domain of protein molecules. Altman's and Cech's revolutionary discovery was that RNA, traditionally thought to be simply a passive carrier of genetic codes between different parts of the living cell, could also take on active enzymatic functions. This new knowledge opened up new fields of scientific research and biotechnology and caused scientists to rethink old theories of how cells function.
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Extractions: Nobel Prize Winning Chemists Sidney Altman The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 1997 Sidney Altman was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. His mother worked in a textile mill and his father in a grocery store before they got married. There were two events which sparked his early interest in science, the first being the appearance of the A-bomb. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year-old. About seven years later he was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. After working on the effects of acridines on the replication of bacteriophage T4 DNA, he joined Mathew Meselson's laboratory at Harvard University to study a DNA endonuclease ivolved in the replication and recombination of T4 DNA. At the MRC laboratory he started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme. John D. Smith, as well as several post-doctoral colleagues, provided me with much good advice that enabled me to test my ideas. The discovery of the first radiochemically pure precursor to a tRNA molecule enabled me to get a job as an assistant professor at Yale University in 1971, a difficult time to get any job at all. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 jointly with Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA."
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Extractions: Montgomery Fellows Home About Us Biographies... Biographies by Date ... Steering Committee Sterling Professor of Biology at Yale University, he is a molecular biologist whose work in the structure and function of genetic material, especially catalytic RNA, won him the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Dr. Altman is deeply concerned with teaching science to both professionals and laypersons. Under his leadership as Dean of Yale College greater emphasis was placed on the importance of science in a liberal arts education. Additional Biography Information courtesy of Google.com
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Extractions: Altman, Sidney 1939-, Canadian-American molecular biologist, b. Montreal, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1967. A professor at Yale Univ. since 1971, he discovered that RNA could function as enzymes; it was previously thought that enzymatic activity was only possible in protein molecules. His discovery has a potential use in fighting viral infections. For this work, Altman shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics with Thomas Cech , who independently made the same discovery.
Altman, Sidney altman, sidney (1939). I was born in Montreal in 1939, the secondson of poor immigrants. My achieved. From Les Prix nobel 1989. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/A/Altman/Altman.
Extractions: Altman, Sidney I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill and my father in a grocery store before they met and married. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education. No sacrifice was too great to forward our education and, fortunately, books and the tradition of study were not unknown in our family. I am conscious of two events that sparked my early interest in science, the first being the appearance of the A-bomb. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. During my final semester at MIT, I took a short introductory course in molecular biology to find out what all the excitement was about. That course, taught by Cyrus Levinthal, familiarized me with nucleic acids and molecular genetics and prepared me for future encounters with these topics. I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
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Extractions: Name Year Awarded Alder, Kurt Altman, Sidney Anfinsen, Christian B. Arrhenius, Svante August Aston, Francis William Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Von Barton, Sir Derek H. R. Berg, Paul Bergius, Friedrich Bosch, Carl Boyer, Paul D. Brown, Herbert C. Buchner, Eduard Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann Calvin, Melvin Cech, Thomas R. Corey, Elias James Cornforth, Sir John Warcup Cram, Donald J. Crutzen, Paul Curie, Marie Curl, Robert F., Jr. Debye, Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus De Hevesy, George Deisenhofer, Johann Diels, Otto Paul Hermann Eigen, Manfred Ernst, Richard R. Euler-chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon Von Fischer, Ernst Otto Fischer, Hans Fischer, Hermann Emil Flory, Paul J. Fukui, Kenichi Giauque, William Francis Gilbert, Walter Grignard, Victor Haber, Fritz Hahn, Otto Harden, Sir Arthur Hassel, Odd Hauptman, Herbert A. Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Heeger, Alan J. Herschbach, Dudley R. Herzberg, Gerhard Heyrovsky, Jaroslav Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot Hoff, Jacobus Henricus Van't
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Extractions: Allen, John F. : Physicist. co-discoverer of superfluidity Altman, Sidney : 1989 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Banting, Frederick : 1923 Nobel Prize winner in medicine. co-discoverer of insulin Brockhouse, Bertram : 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics. Best, Charles : co-discoverer of insulin with Banting Giauque, William Francis : 1949 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry Gosling, James : Programmer. inventor of Java Herzberg, Gerhard : 1971 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Hubel, David : 1981 Nobel Prize winner in medicine Marcus, Rudolph : 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Chemisty Osler, Sir William : Physician. "most influential physician in history" Penfield, Wilder : Neurosurgeon. discovered electrical stimulation of the brain Polanyi, John : 1986 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Schawlow, Arthur : 1981 Nobel Prize winner in physics (for lasers) Scholes, Myron : 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Smith, Michael : 1993 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Taube, Henry : 1983 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Taylor, Richard
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