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Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989

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Sidney Altman, born in Montréal in 1939, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Cech for discovering that RNA, not only proteins, can act as an enzyme.

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The 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as recorded by NobelPrize.org.

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