Everything about Richard J Roberts totally explained
Richard John Roberts (born
September 6,
1943 in
Derby) is an
English biochemist and
molecular biologist. He was awarded the
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with
Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of
introns in
eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
Roberts is the son of a motor mechanic and housewife. When he was 4, the family moved to
Bath. In Bath, he attended the
Beechen Cliff School. As a child he at first wanted to be a
detective and then, when given a
chemistry set, a
chemist. He failed his
Physics A-level exam the first time he took it.
The Science Centre at
Beechen Cliff School,
Bath, a secondary school where Roberts was a pupil, has been named in his honor http://www.beechencliff.bathnes.sch.uk/background.htm ; a poster in the entrance hall details his achievements and bears a replica of his Nobel Prize medal.
In 2005, a multi-million pound expansion to the chemistry department at the
University of Sheffield, where he'd been a student, was named after him.
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