The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
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Sidney Altman
Prize share: 1/2
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Thomas R. Cech
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
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