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Thomas A. Steitz

1940 - 2018

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas A. Steitz has received more than 172,694 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Thomas A. Steitz is the 249th most popular chemist (up from 275th in 2019), the 1,554th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,922nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 249 out of 602. Before him are Thomas Graham, Ryōji Noyori, William C. Campbell, Paul Lauterbur, Ida Noddack, and Sidney Altman. After him are Joseph L. Goldstein, Bernard Courtois, Walter Gilbert, Andreas Libavius, Michael Polanyi, and Kikunae Ikeda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 98. Before him are Gojko Mitić, Rudi Dutschke, James Brolin, Mamnoon Hussain, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Edward C. Prescott. After him are Joseph L. Goldstein, Sepp Piontek, Mate Boban, Frida Boccara, Arieh Warshel, and Víctor Erice. Among people deceased in 2018, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 67. Before him are Scott Wilson, Aaron Klug, Alan Bean, Claude Lanzmann, Sondra Locke, and Dolores O'Riordan. After him are Anthony Bourdain, Steve Ditko, Christine Nöstlinger, Quini, Thorvald Stoltenberg, and Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 1,554 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Ives (1874), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Ed White (1930), Helen Hunt (1963), Art Blakey (1919), and Frank Langella (1938). After him are Danielle Steel (1947), Michael Dudikoff (1954), Jordan Belfort (1962), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Chris Cooper (1951), and Burt Bacharach (1928).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Thomas A. Steitz ranks 51. Before him are Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Elias James Corey (1928), and Paul Lauterbur (1929). After him are Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Walter Gilbert (1932), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Richard Smalley (1943), Edward W. Morley (1838), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918).

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