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Also known as Richard J. Roberts, Sir Richard John Roberts, Rich Roberts, Richard John Roberts

English biochemist and molecular biologist

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Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist, molecular biologist, and university teacher. Born in Derby in 1943, he received his education at the University of Sheffield and was a student of James Watson. His professional career has included positions at Harvard University and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Roberts has received several honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sir Hans Krebs Medal, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is recognized in collections associated with the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Nobel Laureates.

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Person · Open Library

Works
129

Top works

  • Culturally Sensitive Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health
  • Lessons from the Past
  • The Untried Door
  • Tales of Capes and Cowls
  • That One Face Studies Of The Place Of Jesus In The Minds Of Poet And Prophets

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE
Active from
1944-03-13
Active to
2017-07-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
262
Total plays
1,201

Richard Roberts (born November 12, 1948) is chairman and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and previously served as president of Oral Roberts University (ORU) for 15 years. After Roberts stepped down, the outgoing ORU board of regents elected him president emeritus. He is the son of evangelist Oral Roberts and hosts the one hour television program, The Place for Miracles: Your Hour of Healing. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Roberts">Read more on Las

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,309x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,204x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,628x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,217x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,514x

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Key facts

Born
Richard John Roberts , ( 1943-09-06 ) 6 September 1943 (age 82) , Derby , England
Alma mater
University of Sheffield ( BSc , PhD )
Known for
Alternative splicing Work on introns Restriction endonucleases DNA methylation Computational molecular biology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) Knight Bachelor (2008) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2021)
Fields
Molecular biology
Institutions
University of Sheffield New England Biolabs Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Harvard University
Thesis
Phytochemical studies involving neoflavanoids and isoflavanoids (1969)
Website
nobelprize .org /nobel _prizes /medicine /laureates /1993 /roberts-bio .html

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1993

    for their discoveries of split genes

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Richard John Roberts (born 6 September 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.

Early life and education

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