Phillip Allen Sharp ( born Phillip Allen Sharp ; born June 6, 1944 , , Kentucky ) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist . In 1993, together with Richard Roberts, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovering, independently of one another, the discontinuous structure of a gene ."
| Phillip Allen Sharp | |
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| English Phillip Allen Sharp | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Falmouth (Kentucky) , USA |
| A country |  USA |
| Scientific field | molecular biology , genetics |
| Place of work | California Institute of Technology , Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
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| Famous students | Andrew Fire |
| Known as | discovered discontinuous gene structure |
| Awards and prizes | Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research ( 1988 ) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( 1993 ) Geirdner International Award ( 1986 ) US National Science Medal ( 2004 ) Louise Gross-Horvitz Award ( 1988 ) [d] ( 1986 ) [d] ( 1991 ) [d] ( 1980 ) [d] ( 1993 ) [d] |
Institute professor, MIT, member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1983) [2] , US National Medical Academy , American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (2011). He was awarded the US National Science Medal (2004) and several other highly prestigious awards.
Biography
Born in the city of Falmouth ( Kentucky ). He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1969 from the University of Illinois . Until 1971, he worked at the California Institute of Technology , and then at the Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor under the direction of James Watson . Since 1974 he has been working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where in 1985-1991. Director of the Cancer Research Center (now the ), 1991–1999. headed the Department of Biology ( ), in 2000-2004. Founding Director, . Since 1999, Institute Professor at MIT.
In 2016, he signed a letter calling on Greenpeace , the United Nations, and governments around the world to stop fighting genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) [3] [4] [5] .
Rewards
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- 1986]
- Geirdner International Award (1986)
- Louise Gross Horvitz Award (1988)
- Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research (1988)
- Dixon Prize (1991)
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)
- (1999)
- US National Science Medal (2004)
- (2007)
- (2015)