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Thomas A. Steitz
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American biochemist (1940–2018)
Thomas A. Steitz was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, the molecular machine in cells that makes proteins. His work helped scientists understand at the atomic level how cells build the proteins necessary for life, which has implications for medicine and biology.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2009
“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
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- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee
- Place of death
- Branford
- Spouse
- Joan A. Steitz
- Occupation
- biologist
- Employer
- Yale School of Medicine
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- William Lipscomb
- Field of work
- crystallography
- Image
- Thomas A. Steitz.jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Thomas A. Steitz
- date of birth
- 1940-08-23
- date of death
- 2018-10-09
- name in native language
- Thomas Arthur Steitz
- medical condition
- pancreatic cancer
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ancestral home
- Germany
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007 "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase (EC 2.3.2.12) was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".
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