biography
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Roberts, Richard J(ohn)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in Derby, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He gained his BSc and PhD at Sheffield University, UK, and then went to Harvard University (1969) as a research fellow, joining the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island in 1972. There he led research to identify enzymes and, in 1977, helped to revolutionize molecular biology by discovering that the messages on DNA are not continuous as had been thought. For this discovery of ‘split genes’, he and Phillip A Sharp, who made the same discovery independently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Beginning in 1992, Roberts directed eukaryotic research at New England Biolabs in Beverly, MA. |
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