Thomas A. Steitz (1940-2018)

Awarded the Prize “for studies of the structure function of the ribosome.”

Thomas A. Steitz was an American Biochemist who was born on 23rd of August 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry molecular biology from Harvard University in 1966. He was a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Steitz died on October 9, 2018 in Branford, Connecticut, USA.