Thomas A. Steitz
Thomas Arthur Steitz (born August 23, 1940 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † October 9, 2018 in Branford , Connecticut ) was an American molecular biologist and biochemist . Together with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 “for studies on the structure and function of the ribosome”.
biography
Steitz attended Wauwatosa East High School and graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton , Wisconsin with a BA in chemistry in 1962 . He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1966 with William Lipscomb . After a postdoctoral stay at the British MRC in Cambridge , he worked at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut , from 1970 . There he researched and taught as Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and as an HHMI Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .
Thomas Steitz was married to Joan A. Steitz , an award-winning biochemist and also a professor at Yale University. The couple have a son who was a minor league baseball player who also studied and played baseball at Yale.
Research and Awards
In 1998 Thomas Steitz published the first crystal structure of the large subunit of a ribosome , which, however, did not yet make individual atoms visible.
- 1980: Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
- 1990: Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 1990: Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001: Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research
- 2001: AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
- 2006: Keio Medical Science Prize
- 2007: Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2009: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath )
- 2011: Membership in the Royal Society
literature
- Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson : Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018). In: Science . Volume 362, No. 6417, 2018, p. 897, doi: 10.1126 / science.aav8253
Web links
- Homepage of Steitz
- Structural Basis of Replication and Gene Expression
- ResearcherID entry
- Michael Marshall: The secret of how life on earth began , on: BBC - Earth, October 31, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Gina Kolata: Thomas A. Steitz, 78, Dies; Illuminated a Building Block of Life . In: The New York Times . October 10, 2018 (English, nytimes.com ).
- ↑ Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2009 award ceremony to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath (English)
- ↑ N. Ban, B. Freeborn, P. Nissen, P. Penczek, RA Grassucci, R. Sweet, J. Frank, PB Moore, TA Steitz: A 9 Å resolution X-ray crystallographic map of the large ribosomal subunit . In: Cell . tape 93 , no. 7 , 1998, pp. 1105-1115 , PMID 9657144 .
- ↑ Nature News Blog: UK Royal Society elects new fellows
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steitz, Thomas A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steitz, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular biologist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 2018 |
| Place of death | Branford , Connecticut |