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https://doi.org/10.1142/9781860944543_0022Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:

Sidney Altman (b. 1939, in Montreal, Canada) is Sterling Professor of Biology and also Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1989 with Thomas Cech of the University of Colorado at Boulder “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.” Since his graduate studies, Dr. Altman has been concerned with the biochemistry of nucleic acids and with the genetics of tRNA expression…