BIOLOGIST

Joan A. Steitz

1941 - Today

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Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is known for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights into how ribosomes interact with messenger RNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by small nuclear ribonucleic proteins (snRNPs), which occur in eukaryotes. In September 2018, Steitz won the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan A. Steitz has received more than 159,905 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joan A. Steitz is the 1,068th most popular biologist, the 13,808th most popular biography from United States and the 180th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joan A. Steitz ranks 1,068 out of 1,097Before her are Neil Shubin, Susan Lindquist, Frederick DuCane Godman, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Huda Zoghbi, and Suzanne Simard. After her are Albert William Herre, Steve Jones, Stephen Schneider, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Jenny Clack, and Maurice Kottelat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Joan A. Steitz ranks 622Before her are James Clapper, Guy Clark, Frederick Hauck, Robert Hunter, Ali Khalif Galaydh, and Lamont Dozier. After her are Donna Shalala, Tommy Thompson, Martin Carthy, Lucious Jackson, Eddie Rabbitt, and Ulis Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan A. Steitz ranks 13,808 out of 20,380Before her are Phil Mickelson (1970), Gretchen Whitmer (1971), Barbara Jo Allen (1906), David Herman (1967), Gary Herbert (1947), and Kelli Garner (1984). After her are James K. Morrow (1947), Phil Bredesen (1943), George Walton (1741), Nick Diaz (1983), Bitty Schram (1968), and Tiffany Darwish (1971).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joan A. Steitz ranks 180Before her are Annie Montague Alexander (1867), Storrs L. Olson (1944), Ronald M. Evans (1949), Eugenie Clark (1922), Neil Shubin (1960), and Susan Lindquist (1949). After her are Albert William Herre (1868), Stephen Schneider (1945), Jerry Coyne (1949), Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913), Margaret Morse Nice (1883), and Jill Bolte Taylor (1959).