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Thomas Cech

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American chemist

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Thomas Cech
Chemistry
#72
World Rank
#177
Historical Rank
#33
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. He found that RNA can not only transmit instructions, but also that it can speed up the necessary reactions.

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Thomas Cech's Published Works

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