In 1989, Thomas Cech won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 8 December 1947.
Nationality: American.
Education: B.A Grinnell College (1970) the University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (1975) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral.
Known as: Ribozyme, Telomerase.
Awards: Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1985), Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1986), NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1987), Rosenstiel Award (1988), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), National Medal of Science (1995), Othmer Gold Medal (2007).
Fields: Biochemistry.
