biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1939– )
|
| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Montreal, Quebec, SE Canada. He became affiliated with Yale in 1971, and holds dual citizenship. He showed that the RNA molecule could rearrange itself, thereby altering the material it produces without requiring an enzyme - a breakthrough in our understanding of genetic processes. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Thomas Cech in 1989. |
|
|
