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Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome.
Aug 23, 2018 · Thomas A. Steitz. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. Born: 23 August 1940, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Died: 23 August 2018, Branford, CT, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. Prize motivation: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” Prize share: 1/3. Life.
Biographical. I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940, and my family lived in an apartment above a paint store in the downtown area until 1949. Although my father had obtained a law degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, he became the administrator in charge of personnel at the Milwaukee County Hospital.
Thomas Steitz. Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry. Bass 418A. +1 (203) 432-5617. thomas.steitz@yale.edu.
In 2009, Thomas Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome," along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
May 2, 2024 · Thomas Steitz was an 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
Nov 23, 2018 · Thomas A. Steitz, distinguished molecular and structural biologist, died on 9 October at the age of 78. Tom was known for his unerring judgment in picking fundamentally important problems, and persisting, sometimes for over a decade, until he solved them.
Oct 30, 2018 · 30 October 2018. Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018) Crystallographer who shared the ribosome Nobel. By. Georgina Ferry. Credit: Lucas Jackson/Reuters. One Nobel prize sometimes leads to another. As a...
Thomas A. Steitz, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping the structure of ribosomes, molecular machines that translate genetic information into the thousands of proteins essential to living matter, died Oct. 9 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 78.
Oct 10, 2018 · Thomas A. Steitz, a towering figure of late-20th-century science who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for figuring out the structure of a huge molecule central to translating the genetic code...
