Altman, Sidney, 2007 February 5
Dates
- 2007 February 5
Creator
- From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
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Collection materials are closed to research until January 1, 2029, after which access is subject to review by University Archives staff.
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Biographical / Historical
Dean of Yale College, 1985-1989.
Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Professor Chemistry.
Sid Altman, born in Canada in 1939, graduated from MIT in 1960 and received a PhD in biophysics in 1967. He joined the biology faculty at Yale in 1971 and became a full professor in 1980. Altman served as department chair from 1983 to 1985 and as Dean of Yale College 1985-1989. He received the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with Thomas R. Cech, for their discoveries concerning RNA, or ribonucleic acid. In July 1989, Altman returned to teaching.
- Academic freedom
- African Americans -- Education
- Altman, Sidney
- Apartheid
- Biology
- Brainard, William
- Brewster, Kingman, Jr., 1919-1988
- Divestment
- Engineering
- Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 1938-1989
- Gray, Hanna Holborn
- Griffin, Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph), 1933-1988
- Kagan, Donald
- Lamar, Howard Roberts
- Lang, Serge, 1927-2005
- Levin, Richard C., 1947-
- Nobel Prizes
- Nordhaus, William
- Schmidt, Benno C., 1942-
- Science -- Study and teaching
- Singer, Maxine
- Trinkaus, John
- Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
- Yale College (1887- ). Teacher Preparation and Placement Program
- Yale Corporation
- Yale University. Biology Department
- Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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