Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altmanis a Canadian and American molecular biologist, who is the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 May 1939
CountryCanada
opportunity land canada
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
father school college
By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
opportunity waiting months
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.
son poor montreal
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
inspiration opportunity land
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
rna origin-of-life earth
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
summer eight colorado
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.
hypothesis phenomenon instance
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.