Richard J. Roberts
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Sir Richard John Roberts FRS[5] (born 6 September 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.[8][9][10]
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Born | Richard John Roberts (1943-09-06) 6 September 1943 (age 80)[1] Derby, England |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield (BSc, PhD) |
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Fields | Molecular biology |
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Thesis | Phytochemical studies involving neoflavanoids and isoflavanoids (1969) |
Website | nobelprize |
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