Sidney Altman papers, ca. 1967-1994 (inclusive).

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Sidney Altman papers, ca. 1967-1994 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, publications files, laboratory notebooks, and research data which document Sidney Altman's research in nucleic acid chemistry.

31.5 linear ft. (53 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8011731

Yale University Library

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Altman, Sidney

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Sidney Altman was born on May 8, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec. He received a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Colorado in 1967. Following further work in molecular biology at Harvard University and at Cambridge, Altman joined the faculty of Yale University in 1971. Altman's research has concerned nucleic acid chemistry and the genetics of tRNA expression. In 1989 he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. In addition t...