Richard Roberts
Sign in to saveEnglish biochemist and molecular biologist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943-09-06
- 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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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,627x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,112x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,748x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,129x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 6 September 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Roberts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Derby
- Occupation
- molecular biologist
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
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