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Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian Americanmolecular biologist, who is currently 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.
Altman was born on May 7, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were immigrants to Canada, each coming from Eastern Europe as a young adult, in the 1920s. Altman's mother was from Bialystok in Poland, and had come to Canada with her sister at the age of eighteen, learning English and working in a textile factory to earn money to bring the rest of their family to Quebec. Altman's father, born in Ukraine, had been a worker on a collective farm in the Soviet Union. He was originally sponsored to come to Canada as a farm worker, but later, as a husband and a father of two sons, he supported the family by running a small grocery store in Montreal. Sidney Altman was later to look back on his parents' lives as an illustration of the value of the work ethic: "It was from them I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
Entering the RNA World with Sidney Altman
Conversations with History - Sidney Altman
The Origin of Life
The Great Debate - What is Life?
Ribonuclease P: A Small Step in the RNA World with Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman, Opinions on Proteomics and on Human Cloning
Sidney Altman- French Project
President's Speaker Series: Sidney Altman
Dr sidney Altman - Scientific Talk
HCS 2010 Induction Ceremony part 2 (Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman and Dr. Sat Bhattacharya)
Roger Kornberg, “Unexpected Role of Chromatin in Transcription”
William McClain, “Origins of the Genetic Code and Transfer RNA Were Inextricably Linked”
Mark Ptashne, “Specificity”
WSCI Science Conference
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