LC control no. | n 92113726 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Steitz, Thomas A. |
Located | Wauwatosa (Wis.) |
Birth date | 1940-08-23 |
Death date | 2018-10-09 |
Place of birth | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
Place of death | Branford (Conn.) |
Field of activity | Biochemistry Ribosomes--Structure |
Affiliation | Yale University |
Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Biochemists College teachers |
Found in | His 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 language | eng |