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Thomas Cech is an American biochemistry professor and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that RNA molecules can act as catalysts to speed up chemical reactions, a finding that challenged the previous understanding that only proteins could perform this function. His discovery was significant because it revealed new possibilities for how life's molecules might function and opened up new research directions in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1989
“for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- biochemistry
- Official website
- experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_103252
- Image
- Thomas Cech HD2007 Othmer Gold Medal portrait2.JPG
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- Commons category
- Thomas Robert Cech
- date of birth
- 1947-12-08
- member of
- Academia Europaea
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Thomas Cech
- interested in
- biochemistry
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