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Sidney Altman Biography

Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is 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.

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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Origin Of Life, Rna, World, Earth, Life, Referred

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Biophysics, Colorado, Eight, Enroll, Summer

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.

Events, Led, Massachusetts, Mcgill, Physics, Technology

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.

Book, Elements, Periodic, Scientific, Time, Years

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.

Boys, Einstein, Growing, Growing Up, Role Models, Studies

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

Inspiration, Opportunity, Government, Nature, Follow, Privileged

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Hypothesis, Phenomenon, Instance, Frequent, Occurrence

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.

Adequately, College, Father, Pursue, School

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.

Continue, Eighteen, Months, Opportunity, Waiting

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Canada, Family, Land, Opportunity

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Son, Poor, Montreal, Immigrants