Sidney Altman (1939-2022)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.”

American chemist. Altman was born on May 7, 1939 in Montreal, Canada. In 1960 he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his B.S. in physics. In 1967, he was awarded Ph.D. in Biophysics for the University of Colorado. He became Professor at Yale in 1980 later in 1985 the Dean of Yale College. Sidney Altman died on April 5, 2022 in Rockleigh, NJ, USA.