Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman Born (1939-05-07) 7 May 1939 (age 75) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Nationality Canada & American (since 1984) Fields Molecular biology Alma mater MIT, University of Colorado at Boulder Known for Ribozymes Notable awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989) Spouse Ann Korner (m. 1972; 2 children) Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian American molecular biologist, who is the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.