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Thomas A. Steitz

1940 - 2018

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Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome. Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007 "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase (EC 2.3.2.12) was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas A. Steitz is the 189th most popular chemist (up from 249th in 2019), the 947th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,554th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 189 out of 602. Before him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Sidney Altman, Gerhard Herzberg, Robert Huber, and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. After him are Peter D. Mitchell, Richard R. Schrock, Aaron Klug, Julius Axelrod, Johann Deisenhofer, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted.

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Among people born in 1940, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 61. Before him are David Koch, Patrick Leahy, Raquel Welch, John Lewis, Paolo Borsellino, and Nancy Pelosi. After him are Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Roberto Cavalli, Eduardo Galeano, Astrud Gilberto, René Auberjonois, and Mario Andretti. Among people deceased in 2018, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 40. Before him are Paul D. Boyer, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Roy J. Glauber, Hubert de Givenchy, Arvid Carlsson, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are John Gavin, Aaron Klug, Burt Reynolds, Sondra Locke, Arto Paasilinna, and V. S. Naipaul.

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Among people born in United States, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 947 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Bloomberg (1942), Melanie (1947), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Nancy Pelosi (1940), and Alvin York (1887). After him are Matt Damon (1970), John Gavin (1931), Les Paul (1915), Jared Diamond (1937), Ed McBain (1926), and Mel Brooks (1926).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 43. Before him are Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Richard F. Heck (1931), William Standish Knowles (1917), Alan J. Heeger (1936), and Robert Curl (1933). After him are Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Wallace Carothers (1896), and Donald J. Cram (1919).

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