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Thomas A. Steitz
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Thomas A. Steitz

1940 – 2018 · aged 78

American biochemist (1940–2018)

Born
23 Aug 1940 · Milwaukee
Died
9 Oct 2018 · Branford

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 23 Aug 1940BornBorn in Milwaukee
  2. 1980AwardPfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
  3. 2000AwardRosenstiel Award
  4. 2000AwardSir Hans Krebs Medal
  5. 2006AwardKeio Medical Science Prize
  6. 2007AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  7. 2007AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  8. 2009AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  9. 2011AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 2014AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
  11. 9 Oct 2018DiedDied in Branford

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – 2018).

  1. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  2. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  3. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  4. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  5. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  6. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  8. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  10. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  11. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  13. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. 1956Suez Crisis
  15. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  17. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  21. 1968Prague Spring
  22. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  23. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  24. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  25. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  27. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  28. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  29. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  30. 1985Schengen Agreement
  31. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  32. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  33. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  35. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  37. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  39. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  40. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome.

Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007 "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase (EC 2.3.2.12) was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".

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