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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1980s (97) 1989 (10) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1940s (122) 1947 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Midwestern states (70) Illinois (25) Chicago (12) 18. Living Winners 18. Living Winners Alive (292) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) T (32) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) C (49) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) T (18) Thomas (10) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 43 (15) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 35. Worked for Government 35. Worked for Government Europe (31) Europe, western (20) United Kingdom (12) Agency (2) Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (1) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Southwestern states (17) Colorado (5) Boulder (5) University of Colorado (5) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93) Short-term academic staff (38) Southwestern states (38) Colorado (12) University of Colorado (12) Boulder (12) University of Colorado Boulder (12) Long-term academic staff (6) Western states (262) California (253) University of California (159) Berkeley (107) University of California, Berkeley (107) Alumni (34) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academia Europaea (55) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) E (61) European Molecular Biology Organization (51) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (84) C-D (404) D (194) Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (8) G-H (389) G (254) Gairdner Foundation International Award (89) I-J (268) J (208) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (102) K-L (297) L (183) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (50) M-N (333) N (205) NAS Award in Molecular Biology (14) National Medal of Science (101) O-P (364) P (242) Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (8) Q-Z (398) R (196) Rosenstiel Award (36) 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
