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Thomas A. Steitz
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Thomas A. Steitz

Scientist · born August 23, 1940 · died 2018

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Thomas Arthur Steitz 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.

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  1. ~69Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2009

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