Sidney Altman, a biophysicist who discovered RNA’s enzymatic abilities, died on April 5 at the age of 82. His death was announced in a statement from Yale, revealing he had suffered from a long ...

In 1989, when he was just 35-years-old, Cech won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Essentially, they figured out that ...

Biophysicist and Nobel laureate Sidney Altman died following a long illness on April 5 at age 82. Altman was originally interested in physics until a grim outlook on career options caused him to shift ...