| LC control no. | n 78044855 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Altman, Sidney |
| Variant(s) | Altman, S. (Sidney) |
| Birth date | 1939-05-08 |
| Death date | 2022-04-05 |
| Place of birth | Montréal (Québec) |
| Place of death | Rockleigh (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Biology Chemistry Biophysics Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | Yale University University of Colorado |
| Found in | Transfer RNA, c1978 (a.e.) t.p. (Sidney Altman) contributions (S. Altman, Dept. of Biol., Yale) Wikipedia, 3 Aug. 2007 (Sidney altman, born 7 May 1939, Montreal, Quebec; he is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University) Washington post WWW site, viewed April 12, 2022 (in obituary dated April 8, 2022: Sidney Altman, a Canadian-born researcher who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery about the cellular function of RNA, which changed scientists' fundamental understanding of biochemical processes and has had applications to medicine and gene therapy, died April 5 in Rockleigh, N.J. He was 82. Yale University, where Dr. Altman was a professor for many years, announced his death. Sidney Altman was born May 8, 1939, in Montreal. After receiving a bachelor's degree in physics in 1960 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent two years as a graduate assistant at Columbia University. Dr. Altman continued his studies at the University of Colorado, receiving a doctorate in biophysics in 1967. Dr. Altman became a department chairman in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale. From 1985 to 1989, he served as dean of Yale College, the university's undergraduate college) |
| Associated language | eng |
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