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Sidney Altman

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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.


— Sidney Altman


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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.


— Sidney Altman


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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.


— Sidney Altman


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Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.


— Sidney Altman


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I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.


— Sidney Altman


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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.


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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.


— Sidney Altman


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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


— Sidney Altman


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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.


— Sidney Altman


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The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.


— Sidney Altman


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Altman was married to Ann Korner in 1972. "The discovery of the first radiochemically pure precursor to a tRNA molecule enabled me to get a job as an assistant professor at Yale University in 1971 a difficult time to get any job at all. Mol Biosyst (2007 Sep) 3 (9): 604–7.

Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R.

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