Colorado’s Nobel laureates

SIDNEY ALTMAN

Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor in Science; University of Colorado, Boulder, doctorate; Harvard University, postdoctoral fellow; MRC Laboratory, Cambridge, visiting research fellow.

Place of employment: Yale University, Sterling professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and chemistry.

Description of work that received the Nobel: Discovery of a catalytic RNA enzyme.

Impact of that work: Had a widespread impact on the basis of the origin of life and on people studying different kinds of RNA inside cells.

What do you think is the most important discovery ever made? I have no idea what the most important discovery ever made is. Perhaps, it might…