Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altmanis a Canadian and American molecular biologist, who is the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 May 1939
CountryCanada
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associated general importance mystique played scientists
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
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Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.
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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
opportunity waiting months
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.