Phillip A. Sharp (1944- )

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries of split genes.”

American molecular biologist. Sharp was born on June 6, 1944 at Falmouth, Kentucky. he was educated at Union College, Kentucky, the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1969. After spending short periods as a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 was appointed the professor of biology in 1979.