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Steitz, Thomas A

LC control no.n 92113726
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Personal name headingSteitz, Thomas A.
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LocatedWauwatosa (Wis.)
Birth date1940-08-23
Death date2018-10-09
Place of birthMilwaukee (Wis.)
Place of deathBranford (Conn.)
Field of activityBiochemistry Ribosomes--Structure
AffiliationYale University
Profession or occupationNobel Prize winners
Biochemists College teachers
Found inHis Structural studies of protein-nucleic acid interaction, 1993: CIP t.p. (Thomas A. Steitz; Dept. of Molecular Biophysics & Biochem. & Howard Hughes Medical Inst., Yale Univ.)
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 11, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 10: Thomas A. Steitz; b. Thomas Arthur Steitz, Aug. 23, 1940, Milwaukee; moved with his family to Wauwatosa, Wis. when he was 9; d. Tuesday [Oct. 9, 2018], Branford, Conn., aged 78; towering figure of late-20th-century science who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for figuring out the structure of the ribosome, a huge molecule central to translating the genetic code into the proteins that make up living matter)
Associated languageeng