Phillip Allen Sharp Scientist

Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He has been selected to receive the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.

Personal facts

Phillip Allen Sharp
Birth dateJune 06, 1944
Birth place
Falmouth Kentucky
Nationality
United States
Education
Union College (Kentucky)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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Scientist

awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
National Medal of Science
doctoral student
Field of study
Biologist

Phillip Allen Sharp on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://web.mit.edu/sharplab
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_4dj7QXgrY#t=15