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complete name: |
Thomas Robert Cech |
nobel prize: |
chemistry |
award year: |
1989 |
together with: |
Sidney Altman |
prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA." |
biography: |
Biography |
laureate facts: |
Facts |
laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
given name: |
Thomas |
family name: |
Cech |
occupation: |
chemist |
occupation: |
university teacher |
occupation: |
biochemist |
field of work: |
biochemistry |
work location: |
University of Colorado, Boulder, United States of America |
description: |
Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, which showed that life could have started as RNA. He also studied telomeres, and his lab discovered an enzyme, TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase), which is part of the process of restoring telomeres after they are shortened during cell division. As president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he promoted science education, and he teaches an undergraduate chemistry course at the University of Colorado. |
image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1989/summary/> |
date birth: |
1947 |
usual name: |
Thomas Cech |