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Sidney Altman

1939 - 2022

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Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Altman is the 185th most popular chemist (up from 248th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Canada (up from 64th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Chemist.

Sidney Altman is most famous for his discovery of catalytic RNA, which showed that RNA molecules can act as enzymes and catalyze chemical reactions. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sidney Altman ranks 185 out of 602. Before him are Felix Hoffmann, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. After him are Gerhard Herzberg, Robert Huber, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Thomas A. Steitz, Peter D. Mitchell, and Richard R. Schrock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Sidney Altman ranks 35. Before him are Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Barbara Liskov, John Cleese, George Lazenby, Junko Tabei, and F. Murray Abraham. After him are Clay Regazzoni, Tzvetan Todorov, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Wes Craven, and Jorge Sampaio. Among people deceased in 2022, Sidney Altman ranks 43. Before him are Peter Brook, Ray Liotta, Wolfgang Petersen, Bruno Latour, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Robert Curl. After him are William Hurt, Mylène Demongeot, Louise Fletcher, Kakuichi Mimura, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, and Issei Sagawa.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Sidney Altman ranks 35 out of 1,622. Before him are Ralph M. Steinman (1943), Eric Berne (1910), David Johnston (1941), Frederick Banting (1891), Bryan Adams (1959), and Neil Young (1945). After him are Willard Boyle (1924), Henry Taube (1915), Paul Anka (1941), William Shatner (1931), William Vickrey (1914), and James Naismith (1861).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Sidney Altman ranks 2. Before him are William Giauque (1895). After him are Henry Taube (1915), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Maud Menten (1879), and Martin Kamen (1913).

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